American researchers from Ohio University managed to prove that a slight extra weight prolongs life. Obesity continues to be an extremely dangerous disease, but if at the age of 50 a person has only a few extra pounds, he has a chance to live 15 years longer than his ideal weight peers..

Scientists explain this phenomenon by stability. People who constantly lose or gain weight put stress on their body, which is not the case for those who maintain a stable weight..

Those most at risk were already obese people who continued to gain weight with age..

An 18-year experiment included scientists observing the health of 10,000 people.. At the same time, their body mass index was measured regularly..

Thus, 7.2% of subjects aged 50 years and older had serious illnesses and deaths caused by both obesity and new weight gain.. Overweight participants who tried to keep it stable were significantly less likely to die.

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