Obesity adds at least 5 yrs to your joints' age: Survey

A new UK survey has claimed that some people have joints that look a decade older than their actual age. The study found obesity to be a major contributing factor towards this phenomenon, adding at least five years to the age of your joints, the Daily Express reported.

 

Statistics show that, one in five persons between the age of 25 to 34 have their joint age over 50. Some under-35s have been found to have joints aged more than their parents and in some cases, even their grandparents, according to the research that studied 13,000 people.

 

People who took the survey answered questions regarding their lifestyle. They were asked about their weight and their physical activities. The collected data was then run through a joint age calculator on a site run by the dietary supplements company Seven Seas.

 

People were also asked to undergo physical tasks like touching their toes and crossing their legs.

 

"Joint problems aren't something that you can put off worrying about until you grow old," said Osteopath Torben Hersborg, who helped create the calculator.

 

If reports are to be believed, experts predict a 700% rise in knee replacement surgeries by 2030.