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How Does Age Affect Body Composition?
You’re getting older, and notice that you’re gaining more body fat than you would like to have. “Suddenly”, you can “pinch an inch” in your love handles, or that dress or suit that used to fit you so perfectly now feels tighter. What can you do about it? Pretty much nothing. Just sit back, and wait for the impending doom of middle and old age, as you gain body fat, and can do nothing about it.
Yeah, right. But nonetheless, your added body fat has you wondering — how does age affect body composition?
You know from my previous articles that age is no excuse to gain tons and tons of body fat.
And that’s what we’ll explore in this article. We’ll talk about:
- How maturation and age affect body composition if you don’t exercise
- How age affects body composition if you do exercise
All this is to answer the question of “does body fat increase with age”?
And if you want to skip all this information, and just want help yourself, with losing body fat, regardless of your age, you can see if you qualify to work with us by filling out the application form on our home page.
