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Age Related Weight GainIs age related weight gain a myth? Most people past 40 will tell you no. Perhaps we don’t exercise as much, and that has a big influence, but that is not the whole story. Some things are just plain wearing out. As we progress into senior status, our doctors start writing prescriptions for blood pressure medicine, cholesterol medicine, heart disease medicine, diabetic medicine. We get chided for our lifestyles and told to eat less and exercise more. We get handed rabbit food diets and told to cut the fats. No eggs, no beef, no cheese. The doctors mean well but if they took the time to study the volumes of research over the last 20 years, they might abandon some of their cherished notions about what is a healthy diet. The truth is that part of our senior years weight gain is caused by excess insulin which has lead to insulin resistance brought about by a lifetime of carbohydrate abuse. Indeed, all the diseases above are symptoms of excess insulin. (See insulin related diseases.) If we follow a high protein, low carbohydrate food plan we can lose weight and perhaps throw out some of the medicines clogging up our medicine cabinets. However we do need to make a new plan involving three aspects of our lives;
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