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Work to lose weight In the forties and fifties, you can help reduce your risk of developing chronic disease, reveals a new study.
Researchers based in the United Kingdom and Finland claim to have found health benefits in people who lost an average of 6.5% of their body weight at the start of the average age and maintained this weight loss over a period of 12 to 35 years.
These advantages include a particular Reduced risk of cardiovascular diseases And diabetes as well as a global risk of lower death against chronic diseases.
“The advantages of weight-based weight management are largely discussed, even if studies have been surprisingly difficult to demonstrate health benefits beyond diabetes prevention,” said Helsinki University professor, Dr. Timo Standberg statement.
Strandberg was the main author of the study that was recently published in the journal Jama Network Open,, The Open-Access Journal of the American Medical Association.
To achieve these conclusions, the study followed and analyzed the health of 23,000 white Europeans which were between 30 and 50 years old using data from three studies, 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 but became healthy weight, healthy people and overweight and overweight people all the time.
“Weight and height measurement was carried out at a time when surgical and pharmacological weight loss interventions were almost nonexistent,” noted the authors. The cause of weight loss was not evaluated, but given the age of the participants and the lack of diagnosed disease, it was more likely intentional than caused by severe chronic conditions or fragility. »»
In a study, a reduction in body mass from overweight to a normal weight over six years in living environment was linked to a lower risk of developing chronic diseases. There was also a risk of chronic disease of 48% compared to those who remained overweight, who largely held even after excluding the participants who developed diabetes during follow -up.
Another study showed a risk of 57% of chronic disease. A third study, with the longest follow -up period, has shown that weight loss in living environment was associated with a 19% reduction in overall mortality.
“I am sure that the overall prevention of overweight and obesity starting at the start of life is absolutely the best thing to do,” said Stranberg The independent. “Our study proves it indirectly by showing that the healthy weight persistent during life is the best.”
He said he hoped that the results will inspire people to see that lifestyle changes can lead to a longer life.
“This is particularly important today because more people are overweight than when collecting our research data began 35 years ago,” he said in the press release.
