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After the age of 30, a person should reconsider his or her lifestyle
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
“You can’t eat the same way at 30 as you did at 18,” says Sergei Boytsov, director of the State Research Center for Preventive Medicine and chief specialist in preventive medicine at the Russian Ministry of Health and Social Development.
Many health problems stem from the fact that at 50 years of age people consume the same amounts of food as at 18 and 30. However, at a more mature age, the body requires much less food.
Having reached the age of thirty, a person needs to reconsider their views on a healthy lifestyle. It is necessary to purposefully engage in the prevention of diseases that cause aging of the body and shorten life.
Health is a value that is given to you for free by nature. But the reserve of this gift is 30 years. And then you need to start working with it.
Diseases that shorten life (circulatory system diseases, oncology, diabetes) can be avoided by influencing the behavioral risk factors that provoke them. These include overeating, smoking, and low physical activity.
"Until the age of 25, we can eat as much as we want. Although there are people who are genetically predisposed to being overweight. After 30, even without a genetic predisposition, most people notice that they are starting to gain weight," said the chief specialist in preventive medicine at the Ministry of Health and Social Development, dedicated to World Health Day.
Food with a lot of carbohydrates and fats turns into fat. The fat that is deposited inside the abdomen. It is biologically very aggressive, it releases many substances that cause high blood pressure, atherosclerosis and diabetes.
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