Some studies have suggested that having overweight and obesity is associated with lower mortality than having normal weight. Encouragingly, for women who had never used hormone replacement therapy, losing weight after menopause-and keeping it off-cut their risk of postmenopausal breast cancer in half.
Those who gained more than 22 pounds had an even larger risk of developing these diseases. In the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, middle-aged women and men who gained 11 to 22 pounds after age 20 were up to three times more likely to develop heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and gallstones than those who gained five pounds or fewer.Gaining weight as you age increases the chances of developing one or more chronic diseases. Most adults gain on average 1-2 pounds each year. Cardiovascular disease including heart attack and stroke.
These factors may strongly influence your chances of developing the following diseases and conditions: Your weight, waist size, and the amount of weight gained since your mid-20s can have health implications. Maintaining a healthy weight can lower the risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, and many different cancers. It is beneficial to keep a steady weight as much as possible and control excessive weight gain over time, which is strongly associated with health risks. There are many reasons for weight gain including certain medications (corticosteroids, antidepressants, beta-blockers, antipsychotics, insulin), pregnancy, chronic stress, chronically poor sleep, an excessive calorie intake, and lack of adequate exercise. muscle mass), data limited to mainly Caucasian Americans, and lack of information on causes of mortality (e.g., certain conditions like cancer that may cause a lower body weight).
Though some health professionals and the general public still refer to the tables today as a guideline for optimal weight ranges, there are many criticisms about the tables such as not accounting for body composition (e.g., fat vs. These weight tables were often used to determine target weights Since then, the tables have been revised twice, changing the term “ideal” to “desirable” weight, and finally simply “height to weight” tables. People from the ages of 25 to 59 whose weights fell within the listed ranges for sex (men or women), frame (small, medium, or large), and height were found to have the lowest mortality rates. They were intended to be a simple tool showing “ideal” weight ranges that were associated with the lowest rates of early death. The Metropolitan Life Height-Weight tables were created by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1943 to estimate longevity using height and weight data from 4 million policy holders. How useful are the MET Life Height-Weight Tables?
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