Midlife Weight Gain for Women Isn't Inevitable

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Midlife Weight Gain for Women Isn't Inevitable
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Successful weight-reduction strategies exist to combat the natural, but nonetheless detrimental, physiologic changes that accompany midlife.

Research Scholar, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida

Disclosure: Maria D. Hurtado Andrade, MD, PhD, has disclosed the following relevant financial relationships: Although we generally cut back on caloric consumption as we age, we also decrease our energy expenditure as a result of reduced physical activity and muscle mass is the universal screening tool for overweight and obesity, given the changes in body composition in midlife women, other measures, such as waist-to-hip ratio or whole-body adiposity measurement, should be considered in clinical practice.

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