The middle-aged women with overweight would have almost 80% possibility of maintaining a good health in comparison with the women of normal weight. This was the conclusion of a recent investigation. A group of American investigators studied more than 17,000 nurses with an average of age of 50 years. When the study began in year 1976 all the women were healthful. The investigators monitored their weight until the year 2000.
The results indicated that by each point of increase in their index of corporal mass these women had a 12% minor of possibilities of arriving healthful until the 70 years (in comparison with thin women).
The experts consider that those women with an index of corporal mass between19-25 are in a healthful state. Otherwise, those that have an index from 25 to 30 are considered women with overweight. Those that exceed the 30 points are obese.
