Modest weight gain in adulthood boosts disease risk: study

Most adults gain weight as they age, but adding as little as 11 pounds (five kilograms) by middle age may substantially raise the risk of major illnesses, US researchers said Tuesday.Harvard University scientists found that even modest weight gain in adulthood "was associated with a significantly elevated incidence of a composite measure of major chronic diseases, consisting of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and nontraumatic death," said the report in the Journal of the America