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> . In your mid forties, you will experience irrational weight gain. Out of nowhere, for no reason at all, a spare tyre of flesh will arrive around your waist.

Perhaps is author is talking about the effects of (pre) menopause but men can easily avoid this by replacing carb with protein and lifting weights. You just have adjust your lifestyle as you age.

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For men, eat less and exercise is usually enough. Our caloric needs seem to taper off quite a bit, but it's easy to want a lot more than we need, and to want it a lot more often than we need.

Prbly depends on genetics but doing this (eating less and doing cardio ) for my south asian body seems to make me skinny fat ( "spare tyre of flesh will arrive around your waist").

There is no magic fat generation. As you age your metabolism slows down. Mystery solved.

Eat less and you'll be fine.

Eating less makes me skinny fat with "trye around my waist"

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