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Tuesday, July 20, 2004The weight of the medical evidence is overwhelming: when sedentary people become active and start eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables these lifestyle changes improve health dramatically - and this holds true for people of all ages, shapes and sizes. What such changes usually do not do is make 'obese' people appreciably thinner. Yet the weight loss industry will now fight to pour billions of Medicare dollars into its already fat coffers, despite the fact that higher-than-average weight is not a health risk for seniors, and that there is an extremely powerful association between weight loss and premature death among the elderly. But they die beautiful! posted by Sydney on 7/20/2004 08:41:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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