"Obesity In Mid-life Reduces The Chance Of Healthy Survival In Women" -13

"Obesity In Mid-life Reduces The Chance Of Healthy Survival In Women"
Science Daily. Retrieved at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090929194205.htm

A recent study shows that women who live to be 70 and that are either over-weight or were over-weight during their mid-life, can have some serious issues later in life. They were seen to have more chronic diseases and impaired cognitive function, physical function, and mental health. Women, who were lean throughout most of their lives starting from young adults, are shown to be much healthier later on in life. It is the first study showing what adiposity does to the woman’s body. In today’s day, people are getting older, but in the United States, people are also getting much bigger. In the U.S., one third of the population is obese, and almost two thirds of the population is over-weight. In a study that was done, 9.9% of the women were healthy and at a decent weight. Out of the rest of the women, about 3% had chronic diseases, but no other health limitations, about 60% had cognitive, physical or mental health limitations but no chronic diseases and the last 37% had both the chronic diseases and the limitations in cognitive, physical, and their mental health.