Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness podcast.

This episode is going to be all about why fat loss isn't just about how you look

and why we should celebrate fat loss goals and not feel vain or guilty about wanting them or

celebrating them, even if you do have a bit of a goal of wanting to look and feel a little bit better.

Specifically for women, fat loss is not just about looking a certain way.

Now, this is also true for men, but what I'm going to focus on today is one very specific example for women.

There are many health benefits to fat loss if you are overweight and

you're carrying too much fat. High body fat levels will increase your risk of breast cancer,

which is the specific example I am going to talk about today. And why this is relevant is that

unfortunately, one in seven women in the UK will be diagnosed with breast cancer

and 80% of those women will be over 50, which is at least half of my client base, so something that is really important for me to cover.

And if I haven't already spoken about this enough, an area that I am keenly interested in and have a

background in, and this is what I started a lot of my research in, back in the day when I was

more in the kind of academic world. So I also know that a lot of coaches listen to this, and this is

really, really important information for everyone to know, because unfortunately, I think almost everyone is impacted to some extent by breast cancer,

whether it's yourself or someone that you know, I'm pretty sure that everybody is impacted.

And anyone on any of the coaches on EIQ, especially if you're on EIQ grads, you're in luck

because I'm going to be doing a whole section on this.

And this is kind of like, or this episode is a bit of a high level version of some of the

aspects that I'm going to cover in more depth on EIQ.

So one interesting thing to know is that the reason that breast cancer is more common in

women over 50 is a couple of things. So by 50 you've been exposed to estrogen for much longer,

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