Obesity in older adults: technical review and position statement of the American Society for Nutrition and NAASO, The Obesity Society.

By D. Villareal, C. Apovian, R. Kushner, S. Klein. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2005

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Low Protein Intake is Associated with a Major Reduction in IGF-1, Cancer, and Overall Mortality in the 65 and Younger but Not Older Population (2014, neutral): “Based on previous longitudinal studies, weight tends to increase up until age 50–60, at which point it becomes stable before beginning to decline steadily by an average of 0.5% per year for those over age 65 (Villareal et al., 2005; Wallace et al., 1995).”
Effects of obesity on bone metabolism (2011, background): “Obesity is traditionally thought to be beneficial to bone and, thus, to protect against osteoporosis [5,54,55].”