I just saw this thread while looking for something about people 70 and up. I know we have the "over 50 thread," but I also noticed that the other "age," threads are in ten year increments. Just as the average 20-something usually has different focus than over 30, so does someone 75 have a very different life than someone 50. When I was 50 I was just beginning menopause, was strong and healthy enough to do an hour of hard aerobic exercise everyday, had a fulltime job and could wear any clothes on the market and look pretty good in them.
Now at seventy I'm retired, couldn't go to college even if my town had one, walk with a cane and will for the rest of my life, have worries along the lines of "who will take care of ____ after I die," look pretty haggard no matter what my weight (I'm not saying this because it bothers me, just that looking good is no longer the incentive to weight loss it once was) and health is my big priority.
I'm just saying 70 is not 50.
the thing that sent me looking for over 70 posters is a very discouraging article I read about the increase in the need for special beds for obese people in nursing homes. In fact most nursing homes refuse to take obese people even though my generation of seniors is now about 38% obese or very overweight. Frightening to think I may have nowhere to go when the time comes. The worst part of the article was the line that said these people are not encouraged to diet because dieting people over seventy weakens the skeletal/muscular frame too much ?!!! I asked my friend who is a rehab nurse about this and she said yes, it was true.
Also this article about diet making no difference to people over 75:
http://www.futurity.org/at-advanced-...ay-not-matter/
Thoughts?