Tag: waist circumference
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Your Weight Cannot Tell You How Healthy You Are
We’re a society obsessed with weight. Almost every bathroom has a scale in it and in the US alone, the weight loss industry is worth over $66 billion per year. Many weight loss programs promote health as a reason to lose weight, and I’m sure a lot of us have been weighed at the doctor’s…
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Obesity: What is it and why should we care?
We can’t pick up the paper, go online or turn on the TV without hearing about obesity. Our society is obsessed with it. There is no end to the number of programs willing to take your money with promises of melting fat away without doing anything. So much so that in the United States…