Weight or Health

Posted on June 30, 2009

I read this article in The Daily Universe (the campus newspaper for BYU) today about weight vs. health. Here’s a quote from the article from one of my old professors:

“The media and marketers have done a very good job at making us feel inadequate about our appearance. They want to help us use their products to solve a problem that they’ve created. People who have a product to sell will do their part to create a demand for their product. They’re just trying to convince people that they need their product. In my mind, weight’s not the problem. The whole population’s fixation on weight is the problem.”

– Lora Beth Brown, Professor in the department of Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science at Brigham Young University

This specific quote was about so-called miracle pills and supplements, etc. and why there are so many.

Anyway, this article is a good read and makes good points about focusing on health rather than the numbers on the scale. A healthy lifestyle is a better lifestyle. Try it and you’ll see.