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How to Reduce Mid-Life Weight Gain?

Why Do We Gain Weight After 50?

Weight increase is common, almost universal, as we reach middle age. However, while it may be almost inevitable it is not healthy, especially if the fat we gain is stored around our stomach and abdomen.

Calorie needs are highest during our mid-20s, then reduce at about 2-4 percent every 10 years. So if you need about 2500 calories a day at 20 years of age, then by 50 years of age you need only about 2200-2350 calories.

The most common reason why we need to eat fewer calories as we get older, is because our muscle mass tends to decrease. Between the ages of 30 and 70 years, muscle tissue shrinks on average by about 30 per cent in most people. The reason for this is simple lack of exercise. The problem is, muscle requires more energy to sustain it, than fat, does. So the less muscle we have, the fewer calories we need, and any surplus energy we take in will be stored as fat. Hormonal changes (e.g. thryoid function, adrenal function) may also slow down our metabolic rate and cause a drop in calorie needs.

The age-related reduction in muscle tissue leads to an average weight increase of about 5 pounds per decade (men) or 3.5 pounds per decade (women).

To minimize the risk of age related weight increase, all we need to do is eat about 50-100 fewer calories per day, per decade, or increase our calorie burning by about 50-100 calories a day per decade. An easy way to achieve this is to walking an extra mile a day (per decade).

Nutrition and exercise for a healthy body

The eternal 90-60-90 is every womans nightmare. No matter the age, color of the skin its every woman's dream to reach or at least to get close to these perfect measures. It can be the Atkins diet, the Anne Collins diet, low fat diet we try it all to lose a few pounds and to have the tiny little waist that was and will always be in fashion. We make choices every day: to smoke or not, to put on the seatbelt or not, to exercise or not, to eat junk foot or a healthy meal and every little choice we make has an affect on our life and our heath. Gary Winnick The maintenance of a healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle is a difficult test we have to pass each day. The most important thing to pass the test is responsibility. We have to be aware that we have to be responsible for each choice we make: physical, social, psychical and every choice has an effect on out life. It was proven by endless studies that the length of a person's life is directly influenced by the way we live our daily life, by what we consume by the sleeping hours, the alcohol consume, the daily exercise. The main problem in our life is the planning of our free time. Most of the time we choose to watch TV and stay in house instead of going for a walk in the park, going for a swim of to a fitness salon. Every day exercise is important to keep our body and our mind in shape to be fit and healthy. Exercise helps to increase our energy, improve our muscle tone, helps us reduce the stress and increase the self esteem. An ideal body weight, a nice and healthy body needs the physical exercise. The best results can be achieved with the combination of the exercise and the healthy, equilibrate nutrition. This method is great because with exercise, our body burns a lot of calories. If we burn every day 300 calories, we can lose one pound per week. To maintain our body weight is sometimes much more difficult, then to lose some body weight. If you have a daily exercise routine, follow the below guide lines to help you have a healthy body: 1.Don't skip breakfast, this is the most important meal of the day 2.eat only fresh food: fresh vegetables and fruit 3.eat regularly, at the same time every day and stop before you are full. It is more healthy to eat more often, smaller amounts then to have only 3 meals per day 4.drink two liters of water each day and try to avoid alcohol The combination of exercise routine and healthy nutrition has the following benefits: 1.Better overall health and a healthy body. 2.The risk to get sick is low 3.We have more energy 4.We have stronger bones and muscles