The average woman in the US today weighs 168 pounds. This is approximately the same as an average man in the 1960’s (CDC). Men are up 30 pounds and 20% of children are obese.
It’s time to move away from the old “ diagnose and adiós” mentality.
Providing information alone or education is not a good recipe to change a behavioral or a pattern. Changing a person’s mind with information is tough whereas changing someone’s behavior with information is a true test.
As a chiropractor using functional medicine I have seen first hand that appropriate care is not being delivered for the root cause of illness. Drugs and surgeries are prescribed in way that forestalls the inevitable continuation of underlying pathology.
If these terms are foreign to you. Spanx is a huge company that manufactures shape-wear to help men and women appear thinner. The term “Dad bod” (as defined by the Urban dictionary) is a male body type that is best described as "softly round."