This item in the Medical News Today website I found absolutely fascinating. Probably like yourself I have always believed that being overweight was a bad thing if you had a bad back or joints.
Well not so according to Tapio Videman, MD, DMSci, Heritage Senior Scholar of Rehabilitation Medicine at University of Alberta.
He and his team have done research which shows that more physical loading may in fact slightly delay disc degeneration.
Videman based his findings on his studies of identical male twins. Identical that is except one of the twins weighed on average 29 pounds heavier than the other, that’s just over two stones to you and I in the UK.
What he found was that there was not only no evidence to show that the extra weight was harmful to the discs, but in fact the heavier twin had slightly less disc degeneration.
Great, I can carry on eating the pies then!
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