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Cultural Approach Holds The Key To Tackling Obesity

April 30, 2006 By Deborah

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Taking a cultural approach in how we look at obesity may help us better understand why some groups of people do not see obesity as a problem.

Health professionals need to use more than tape measures and scales to define and tackle obesity, according to a paper in the latest Journal of Advanced Nursing.A research review carried out by Maryanne Davidson from Yale University, USA, has discovered that many women don’t make the link between high weight and poor health and that culture plays a big role in how positively they see themselves… click link for more info….

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Debbie is a board certified family nurse practitioner with an emphasis on women's health. During the past 22 years she has worked in women's health and family practice with a focus on the integration of conventional and alternative therapies.

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