Exercise for slimming
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The pejorative aphorism Obesity is the result of greed and sloth has come to be applied to the fat individual. The inferences implied are widely accepted not only by the public and journalists but by the health-care professional and the nutritional scientist too. Is this justified particularly with respect to sloth? Of course, fat deposition must be the result of excess intake of energy in relation to metabolic requirements (see Fig. l), integrated over time and persisting for a long period of time, but it is not necessarily the result of ‘greed’ or of ‘sloth’ (Stern, 1984). Equally
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