As you grow older, it becomes harder and harder to drop those unwanted pounds off your body. Your metabolism will slow down to a crawl, and you aren’t exercising as much as you used to when you where younger. You may believe that losing weight now is pretty much useless. However, you are wrong.

The commonly held notion that metabolism slows as we age was called into question last year in a study in the journal Science. Researchers from Duke University found that metabolism stays mostly stable throughout life, declining about 3% per year until about age 20 and then plateauing until around age 60, when it declines again at the rate of about 1% a year. Read Here