
Weight tends to pop up a lot in our conversations. And
there’s good reason for it too. We often assume that we’re the only people who
really struggle with our weight. But, it’s far more common than most people
realize.
Part of the confusion comes from the way weight is generally discussed in our
culture. The media tends to frame the problem around obesity. Magazines,
newspapers and TV news programs all talk about the obesity epidemic. And it’s
true that this is a problem. But it’s generally phrased this way because people
struggling with obesity are the minority of viewership or readership. They know
that they’re not offending much of their market by specifically discussing the extreme
end of the weight problem.
But in fact, the science shows definitively that health related weight issues
simply scale with the amount of excess fat. An overweight person has similar health issues and …