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Many of us will have heard the quote “Life begins at 40″ but do most of us think it’s true?In some ways life might be better once a person reached his forties. A person’s disposable income, for instance, might be much higher than it was when he was starting out, having to get on the property ladder, furnish his first home,  purchase a car - possibly taking out a loan to do so, along with all the other aspects of life that cost a lot of money.By the time a person is in his forties he is likely to be leading a more settled lifestyle, and can afford some of the luxuries in life, nice holidays, entertainment, socializing etc. and may even be coming up to the time when he no longer has a mortgage on his home to pay, his car is his own, and he’s got a regular income from his steady job.On the other hand I know a lot of people who would argue that life actually starts to go downhill at the age of 40. When their eyesight is no longer as sharp as it once was and they have to wear glasses. It’s the time for many that their blood pressure rises to higher levels than is normal and medication is needed in order to control the problem.When despite all their best efforts they start to put on weight. Belly fat increases. I know of one person now in his 40’s who is a builder. He’s very active in his job, up and down ladders, bending down, stretching, and generally getting a lot of exercise during the course of his work. He doesn’t over drink alcohol, doesn’t overeat, yet now in his forties he has quite a big stomach. What is it? Does the metabolism slow down as we get older? Exercise is one thing, but some suggest that up to 70% of our calories are burned off naturally through our metabolism. If our body isn’t functioning normally then maybe that’s one of the reasons we don’t lose weight like we might have done when we were younger.Some studies have concluded that even eating meat can be the cause of putting on weight and getting fat. Not necessarily because of the meat itself, but because of the farming methods used to rear cattle and other animals used for meat. As we get older if we have eaten meat all our lives obviously the more meat we will consume proportionate to our age. But it isn’t just the meat, it’s the link between antibiotically fed meat and the increasingly obese population. The antibiotics in the animals kill the bacteria so the animals get fat (meaning more profit for the farmer), but the antibiotics are not destroyed in cooking so they destroy the bacteria in the humans which results in us humans getting fat.In some ways yes life can begin at forty, but in so many other ways, particularly where our health is concerned, quite the opposite can be true.