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Ever noticed that when you were younger, you could ingest all the pizza, beer and ice cream you wanted without gaining weight, but now, every spoonful of chocolate-chipcookie-dough ice cream seems to permanently park itself under your belt? What's up with that?
As you age, your metabolism runs at a slower speed, so your body uses about 87 fewer calories a day than it did when you were younger.
Doesn't sound like much, does it? But it amounts to 2 pounds a year or 20 pounds a decade. ...