How those extra pounds in your 30s affect you 30 years later

A recent study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) conducted on a large population of women who lived until they were at least 70 years old, discovered that being overweight in mid-life often led to poor health late in life.  The health problems include:

• multiple chronic diseases,
• impaired cognitive function,
• impaired physical function and
• impaired mental health.

The biggest risk seem  to be women who were overweight at 18 and continued to gain.

You can read the entire article about how being overweight early in life leads to poor health later in life.