Is Obesity Reversing Health Trends for Seniors?

According to an article (click here) in USA Today, seniors 65+ as a whole experienced decreasing numbers of disabilities since the 1980’s. Now, as a result of obesity, this good trend may be on the verge of reversing.

Author Nanci Hellmich uses case studies to show how obesity can lead to loss of independence and disability. As one of her interviewees put it, if she could do it over, “I would have lost weight a long time ago.”

Add comment June 7th, 2006