by A new study can help reduce the risk of developing a chronic illness in order to lose weight in the 40s and 50s.
In Great Britain and Finland researchers have found that they found health benefits in people who lost an average of 6.5 percent of their body weight at the early middle age and claimed this weight loss during a period of 12 to 35 years.
These advantages include a reduced risk of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes as well as an overall low risk of the risk of death from chronic diseases.
“The advantages of weight management on lifestyle are discussed in detail, although it is surprisingly difficult to demonstrate health benefits beyond the prevention of diabetes,” said Dr. Timo Strandberg, professor of the University of Helsinki.
Strandberg was the main author of the study, which was recently published in the journal Jama Network OpenPresent The open access journal of the American Medical Association.
In order to achieve these conclusions, the study pursued and analyzed the health of 23,000 white Europeans who were between 30 and 50 years old, with data from three studies that were carried out from 1985 to 1988, from 1964 to 1973 and between 2000 and 2013.
They sorted the participants in four groups: people with persistent healthy weight, overweight people who, however, became a healthy weight, people who were healthy and overweight, and people who were overweight all the time.
“The measurement of weight and size was carried out at a time when surgical and pharmacological weight intervention were almost unavailable,” said the authors. The cause of the weight loss was not evaluated, but given the age of the participants and the lack of diagnosed disease, it was more often intended than by serious chronic diseases or frailty. “
In a study, a reduction in the body mass of overweight to normal weight for over six years was bound in the habitat with a lower risk of developing chronic diseases. There was also a 48 percent lower risk of chronic diseases compared to those who remained overweight, which had also been excluded after the exclusion of participants who developed diabetes during the follow -up examination.
Another study showed a 57 percent risk of chronic diseases. A third study with the longest follow-up period showed that weight loss in the middle of life was associated with a reduction in the overall mortality by 19 percent.
“I am sure that the general prevention of overweight and obesity that begins in early life The independent. “Our study indirectly proves by showing that persistent healthy weight is best over the résumé.”
He said that he hopes that the results will inspire people to see that changes to the lifestyle can lead to a longer life.
“This is particularly important today because more people are overweight than at the beginning of the collection of our research data 35 years ago,” he said in the explanation.
