Doctors told about the dangers of weight loss

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Медики рассказали об опасности похудения Losing weight people are susceptible to health problems.

Weight loss, even if it is gradual, may adversely affect the health of older women. To such conclusion the American experts, examined data of more than 1,300 participating in the study.

What are the consequences do you mean? For example, those women who for 20 years has lost nine kilograms or more, the probability to suffer from a hip fracture was two times higher than that of the study participants with stable weight. In addition, the “slimming” the risk of dying in the next five years was increased by 74 percent. However, the indicators of their physical activity was three times worse.

“Weight loss can be associated with very serious health consequences after 80 years”, – the authors of an article published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

The average age of participants at commencement of study was 68 years. Doctors and scientists from the Center for health research Kaiser Permanente in California was watching the state of health of these women for 20 years: consider the body mass index, diet, physical activity, consumption of alcohol and cigarettes. In addition, the recorded cases of fractures and deaths.

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