Latest / Just For Today / 149. Healthy weight
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- Cindy Marler: 70% of the adult population in America falls outside the medical healthy weight baseline. 70%. So what has happened as the average weight keeps getting unhealthier and unhealthier is that it often can move what we think is healthy in our own mind. But the healthy medical range is fixed. So no matter if the population keeps going further and further on one side of it, we have to make sure that what we consider healthy stays the same. And when we're talking about weight, we have to factor in a lot of things. So you can ask your doctor, but you should know what is a healthy weight range for your body, your height, your age. If you get an annual physical, you should know this and you should know this number. And this should be something that you work to stay within. Because seven out of 10 of us are not doing the work to stay within a medical healthy weight range. And with heart attacks being the number one killer, with depression and mental health disease, we need to be talking about this more. This is not about body image. This is not about summer hot swimsuit seasons. This has nothing to do with that. There is a medically healthy weight range for your body. age, body type, size, height, and do you know what it is? And do you put forth effort to stay within it? That's simple, guys. It's a simple math problem. And I but it might not be simple living out, but what's not going to work is if you are ignorant, ignorance is not bliss. Knowledge is power. Ignorance is sometimes bliss. But in this situation, ignorance could lead to a heart attack. It could lead to Really big health problems in your life and in the people who love you. So for the people who love you, let's know today, just for today, what is the healthy weight range for your height, for your age, for your body type? What is that? Are you within it? And if you're not within it, how far out of it are you? But what is it? Let's just know just for today, what is your healthy weight range? If you don't know, schedule a physical. If you don't have health insurance, you can get a physical for like 60 or $80 or your local walk-in clinic. Let's figure that out. And let's write this statistic from 70% of our adult population falling outside the medically healthy weight range. Let's shift that number back, guys. That's really, really big. And we're going to do it just for today.