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"Strong is the Better Sexy!" Athletes Are Better Role Models Than Sexualized Cover Models For Young Women

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Image 1: Photos of like this, showing athletic women, during competition, or when they train, unfortunately, never make it to the magazine covers, with their heavily photoshop-ed images of male and female "celebrities". Those of you who have not skipped my lengthy introduction to Adelfo's latest blogpost will probably have read between the lines that I personally believe that the influence of attitudinal values and believes about themselves and others on failure and success of what people usually refer to as their "transformation" is largely underrated. On the one hand of the extreme, you have those, who run around telling everyone how "happy" they are with the (mostly pretty chubby) "way they are" only to boil out their eyes, when they get home from work and sit lonely in front of their television. Then, you got those people who acknowledge that they are not really satisfied with the way they look, but that the latter "must...

Is it Your Neighbor(hood)'s Fault That You are an Obese Couch Potato? Plus: Higher Incomes Increase Obesity Risk in Men, Better Education Decreases Risk in Men & Women

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Image 1: If this photo looks as if it was taken in your neighborhood, statistics say that you will have a harder time than others warding off obesity. If you have not already been aware that the major weightloss obstacles are not so much of physio- than of psychological, or I should say behavioral natural, Monday's blogpost on the inability or unwillingness of the majority of the study participants in the Krebs study should have reminded you that there is more to losing weight than having an "optimal" diet plan. In this context, the results of a recently published paper from the University of Ottawa , Canada ( Prince. 2012 ), comes to mind, in which Stepanie A. Prince and her colleagues report the results of a large-scale cross-sectional multi-level analysis of the association between neighborhoods, physical activity and obesity in Ottawa. Mislead and misfed, but by no means unable to afford leading a healthier life-style Although obviously of epidemiological na...
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