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Reader Stories: Losing Weight With Osteoarthritis

Experts have made it clear that maintaining your ideal weight is essential to managing osteoarthritis. About three to six times your body weight is exerted across the knee while walking. So, if you are 10 pounds overweight, the force on your knee is increased by 30 to 60 pounds with each step.

Besides extra stress on weight-bearing joints, being overweight has also been linked to a higher risk of developing osteoarthritis, even hand osteoarthritis.

Losing weight, even small amounts, makes a difference. Are you above your ideal weight and living with osteoarthritis? Have you been successful at losing weight?

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