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Losing Weight Can Help Your Knees

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Losing weight may help ease the pain of knee arthritis.

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" Losing weight may help ease the pain of knee arthritis according to a new study from Wake Forest University. Researchers found patients who lost the most weight over a year and a half had greater mobility and less pain and heavier patients. Another study from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston finds people are being diagnosed with knee arthritis earlier. The average age of diagnosis in the 1990s was 69. Now it's 56."

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Losing Weight Can Help Your Knees