Is it difficult for older adults to lose weight
we've got a sort of an unusual YouTube channel over half of our subscribers of our viewers are
55 and older so tell me that YouTube's a young person's media a lot of middle
agers here so contrary to what many believe weight management is not more difficult for older adults
now we could argue and debate over this but let's get into the details a team of researchers
analyzed medical records of 242 randomly selected people who participated in the WISDEM
study between 2005 and 2016 it's an obesity study it's short for the Warwickshire Institute for the
Study of Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism subjects were divided into two groups the
first was under 60 and the second was 60-78 all subjects had morbid obesity meaning their BMI was
40 or more weight management included dietary changes more exercise psychological support
weights before and after participation in the WISDEM program were monitored people in the older
group lost an average of 7.3 percent of their body weight while those in the under 60 group
lost 6.9% the results are statistically equivalent so that's where you get this interpretation that
maybe it's not that much more difficult for 60 and 70 year olds to lose weight at least according to
this study according to the co-author Dr. Thomas Barber age should be no barrier to lifestyle
management of obesity rather than putting up barriers to old people accessing weight loss
programs we should be proactively facilitating that process to do otherwise would risk further an
unnecessary neglect of older people through social ageist misconceptions well that sounds almost
political there not sure I want to go there but being 70 is no reason to say I can't lose weight
why wait for a disease and hope for a cure I used to be an ER doc my name is Ford Brewer
I quit ER after a few years because it was just so frustrating most of the things bringing people
into the ER are things that should have been prevented including heart attack stroke number
one cause of death number one cause of permanent disability people think that you're just gonna
have those and that they're not predictable both of those are wrong they are predictable
and you don't have to have them usually it's lifestyle lifestyle is more important than
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