American researchers have found that being fat in middle age cuts a woman's chances of reaching a ripe old age in good physical and mental shape by almost 80%.
The study appears online in the medical journal BMJ, and was funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Boston Obesity Nutrition Research Center.
With average life spans increasing due to advances in both detecting and treating illness, it's those extra pounds so many of us carry that might just undo these hard won gains.
And since fat is known to act the same way in both men and women, it's likely these results linking extra weight at midlife with a reduced chance of a healthy old age hold for men as well as women.
The team of researchers observed over
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