Is middle-aged weight gain inevitable?
Posted by kathryn in Fitness and Nutrition
There’s a great piece on the ABC’s website about middle-aged weight gain. A lot of people think it’s inevitable. There seems to be a widely held belief that as you age there’s a dramatic slowing of the metabolism, which means no matter how hard you try weight gain is going to happen.
But this is not really true. There is a slowing of the metabolism as people age, but it’s relatively slight. What’s more significant in the development of middle-aged spread, is the drop in activity which occurs as we age and our lifestyle changes.
It’s a really well explained article and I’d encourage you to take a look Fact Buster: is the middle-aged spread inevitable?.