Fitness First, Looks Later

Professionals and experts are constantly challenging the theory of being fit against being thin. For long term prospects fitness is by far the more useful of the two.

It is common knowledge that obesity is becoming a worldwide problem, but constant media hype only continues to heighten the problem.

Professor Paul Campos has a keen interest in the way people relate to the way their body looks, weight watching and how they themselves relate to their food intake. He has spoken in depth to four hundred people to glean important information in order to help him write his new book ‘The Obesity Myth: Why America’s Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health‘. Campos studied Law at Colorado University but is well versed with the medical world.

Americans have become consumed with educated panic, the more focus put upon weight loss the more frenzied they become. Rather than accept themselves and their bodies for what they are, anxieties are overtaking and becoming a focal point, thus causing mental anguish and instability.

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