How Healthy Will You Be? It Depends On This
By Michael Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet Oz, M.D. What's in your shopping cart? If you put all the good stuff on one side -- produce, grains, nuts and legumes, lean protein -- and everything else on the other, which way would your cart tip? If it's toward "everything else," well, if you plan on living with vigor and celebrating your 70th birthday and beyond, we're here to help.
We always say that focusing on eating healthfully also can get you to the weight your body really wants to be. One more compelling reason to do that: More data from the Nurses' Health Study confirms that the leaner you are at midlife, the healthier you'll be at age 70 and beyond.
It's no surprise that a healthier weight means a healthier you. But what's so nice about this research is that it spells out how huge the effect is: For every 2.2 pounds you gain after age 18, your odds of being free of chronic disease and of mental and physical impairments decrease by 5 percent (in this study, only 11 percent of women were free of chronic disease at age 70). Adding it up another way, women who gained 22 pounds by age 50 had a 59 percent lower chance of being chronic-disease-free at age 70 than women who had not gained any weight. And this comes from the time when women at age 18 were lean (defined as a BMI of 18.5 to 22.9).
So your shopping cart now is a pretty good predictor of how healthy you'll be later. The coolest thing: You're in control of what you put in it.
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The YOU Docs, Mehmet Oz and Mike Roizen, are authors of "YOU: The Owner's Manual." Want more? See "The Dr. Oz Show" on TV (check local listings). To submit questions, go to www.RealAge.com. (c) 2009 Michael Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet Oz, M.D. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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