Cutting Back

I found an article on MSN relating to keeping weight down as we age. Click here for the second page of the article. The article kind of depressed me. Basically, the older you get the less you can eat and the more you have to work out to keep the waistline you had in your twenties. Although I am a bit blue after reading it, the article has really good points to make about weight, food, exercise, birth control related weight gain and hormones.

The article is good and some of it is recycled information like most articles of this nature but I thought it was good to read and refresh. One of the points in the article was geared toward weight gain as we age. I have always wondered what the exacts were on this particular subject. A high percentage of adults gain 1 to 2 pounds per year and by the time these adults hit 50 they are very overweight. To keep your girly figure or most of it anyway, you need to scale back on calories by about 150 to 175 per day. This calorie cutback increases by that number for each decade. By the time you are in your 50's, over 500 calories are being cut out of your diet per day.

To stay healthy, I imagine you need to reevaluate your food intake to make sure you are getting enough vitamins in your daily consumption. It crossed my mind that possibly those calories are empty and unclean calories. I am going to try to find related articles or diet plans that relate to this blog and post them.

I have a feeling I may have stumbled upon an interesting idea for a book. I do not imagine I have to be a dietician to research a book about food. This is right up my alley. I am imagining it now, my first book, ah. I can knock two wishes off my list of things to be when I grow up, a novelist and a research writing expert.