If Weight Loss Is Your Only Goal for Exercise, It’s Time to Rethink Your Priorities

If Weight Loss Is Your Only Goal for Exercise, It’s Time to Rethink Your Priorities
Being fit has little to do with outward appearance, and everything to do with your level of activity. MinDof/Shutterstock
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As an aesthetic society, we often demonize body fat and stigmatize people with lots of it. There’s often an assumption that people carrying excess weight don’t exercise and must be unhealthy.
But that’s not true: you can be fat and fit. In fact, as we age, low levels of fitness can be more harmful to our health than high amounts of fat.
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