Articles Tagged health risks of obesity

Just When You Thought You Were Healthy…

This new method of determining who is healthy is revealing some frightening stats. Of the almost fourteen hundred people studied, 26 percent were classified as obese using their BMI. That number almost tripled to 64 percent when measured with a Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) scan. The study discovered that misclassifications were more common in women then men and also increased with age.

Difficult Until it Isn’t – Once You Make Up Your Mind, It All Works

We make the process more difficult than necessary, gunking it up with all manner of artificial mental barriers and obstacles. Instead of accepting what must be done, we lament the process of change; stubbornly hanging on to the ineffective, seeking to finagle my way around what is required. We devise excuses for not waking in time to exercise, saying, “just this once won’t hurt” while nibbling leftovers from the refrigerator. We protest the higher price of healthier foods, opting instead for the long-term cost of greasy, crunchy, fried bags of chips. Our thoughts are the problem, not the diets.