Does age effect ability to lose weight?

Never claimed to be an expert here in fact there's been multiple times on here I've stated that I am not in fact a nutritional expert, and all of you say I'm turning a blind eye to your "facts" when in reality all of you turn back to one thing, exercise. My argument has absolutely nothing, nothing, one more time NOTHING to do with exercise. I'm simply stating that if I restricting calories creates weight loss regardless of age. Not to mention the studies are great and all but anyone can manipulate a research study to make the end results what they want them to be. Have you ever considered some of these MD's are in the business of making money and creating "weight loss" products/solutions for the elderly therefore they conduct such studies that shockingly prove to people why their product would be oh so very effective for them to use because their "metabolic rate has slowed" or they're "losing muscle mass so quickly their bodies will not be able to keep up." Sorry I don't believe everything I read, but you can all continue to do so this will be my last post because clearly this is going no where just a bunch of older people trying to attack me because they can't accept that things change. Go back to your atkins/south beach and whatever other garbage diets you use and then come back to me in 3 months when the results vanish along with your motivation. Why? Because none of those diets look at the most basic idea of calories in vs out.

If you don't believe everything you read, then why the hell did you ask us to show you ONE good study in a quality journal and promise to retract your claims if someone could?

Demonstrate a little intellectual honest here, please?

Why don't you just say: I have my bias and I'm going to stick with that particular bias and the rest of you can go to hell?

THAT would be honest.

You are being entirely too simplistic. And we are NOT just talking about exercise. Let's pretend we magically follow a sedentary man or woman throughout his/her life. That individual will have a more higher metabolism at 20 than he/she will at 60 even if he/she doesn't exercise and even if body mass stays the same. One reason for this is sarcopenia- muscle wasting. Their body composition would change. They'd lose muscle mass, especially if they don't exercise. As others have pointed out, there are differences in insulin sensitivity, and so on. I'm a neuroscientist, not really a human physiologist. My area of expertise is brain cell death in stroke, traumatic brian injury, and neurodegenerative diseases. Stoke and neurodegenerative diseases are much more common in older populations than in younger... and why is it? Because our bodies change with age. They become less efficient. They can't repair themselves as well... and that's true in just about every organ in your body, brain included. All things being equal, a 20 year old heart is healthier than a 60 year old heart... and so on.

Even the most basic cellular mechanisms lose efficiency. You know... those cellular mechanisms that determine how well you repair proteins, etc...

Its simple science.

So while you're correct that age shouldn't be used as an excuse and that PRINCIPLES of weight loss in the elderly are the same, you are flat-out wrong in everything else you're claiming.

Those MD's you're talking about, that have supposedly created weight loss products and are getting rich? Most MDs are sincerely interested in helping people. A small few are more interested in lining their pockets. Even the atkins diets you're bashing are based on the idea that they might help people. I am about as far from being an ketogenic-diet supporter as they come... but you are absolutely wrong that they don't look at calories in vs. calories out. They don't count calories specifically, but that's because people usually eat fewer calories naturally when on those diets because they are satiated by the fat.

So... believe what you want... continue to preach that the world is flat if you wish. The rest of us will preach that it's round.

Never claimed to be an expert here in fact there's been multiple times on here I've stated that I am not in fact a nutritional expert, and all of you say I'm turning a blind eye to your "facts" when in reality all of you turn back to one thing, exercise. My argument has absolutely nothing, nothing, one more time NOTHING to do with exercise. I'm simply stating that if I restricting calories creates weight loss regardless of age. Not to mention the studies are great and all but anyone can manipulate a research study to make the end results what they want them to be. Have you ever considered some of these MD's are in the business of making money and creating "weight loss" products/solutions for the elderly therefore they conduct such studies that shockingly prove to people why their product would be oh so very effective for them to use because their "metabolic rate has slowed" or they're "losing muscle mass so quickly their bodies will not be able to keep up." Sorry I don't believe everything I read, but you can all continue to do so this will be my last post because clearly this is going no where just a bunch of older people trying to attack me because they can't accept that things change. Go back to your atkins/south beach and whatever other garbage diets you use and then come back to me in 3 months when the results vanish along with your motivation. Why? Because none of those diets look at the most basic idea of calories in vs out.

What fad diets?? I didn't see any fad diets mentioned....we are all talking about calories in vs out. We are merely stating when you are older and in particular an older woman it is just harder to lose the weight. Yeah and most of us here are doing it the right way - eating right and getting regular exercise which IS important. You're 22 hon, come back and tell your story 30 years from now.