Hey folks, I'm taking a week away from the podcast, but I'll be back next week with more fitness tips.

In the meantime, I wanted to share an episode of Nutrition Diva, another show on the Quick and Dirty Tips Network.

If you don't already listen to Nutrition Diva, now is the perfect time to start.

Sometimes, it can just feel impossible to know if we're eating healthy.

Vitamins, minerals, fat, protein, it's all enough to make your head spin.

That's why, every week on Nutrition Diva, host Monica provides quick and accessible tips

and how to sort food facts from fiction.

This week, we're going to look at the question, what's more important for our health,

getting fit or losing weight?

I wanted to share this episode because there's such an obsession with weight loss in our society

that we sometimes focus on it to the

exclusion of other lifestyle changes that would improve health even without weight loss.

I hope you enjoy it and go on to listen to more Nutrition Diva episodes.

See you next week.

Hello and welcome to the Nutrition Diva podcast. I'm your host Monica Reinagle and I'm glad you're listening today.

There's been a simmering debate in the medical community, not to mention the popular press,

over whether it's time to stop making weight loss the primary goal of obesity treatment.

Obesity, as you probably know, is a disease state that's defined by having a BMI, a body

mass index of more than 30. Okay, but what's that mean in actual numbers? Well, I'm 5 foot 9 inches tall, that's 175 centimeters,

and at 150 pounds, I'm considered normal weight. At 170 pounds, that would be 77 kilograms,

I would be classified as overweight. And if my weight crept above 200 pounds or 91 kilograms, I would then be

classified as obese. Most people suffering from obesity would be a lot healthier if they lost weight.

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