We must make distinctions between the extremes ofclinicalobesityand thinning eating disorders, and healthy eating and frequent dieting.
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To feel a little overweight, especially when the feeling is deliberately heightened by the effects of the industry's advertising campaigns, is far fromclinicalobesity.
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Clinicalobesityis the cause of many illnesses.
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The other factor may be the growth ofclinicalobesityin the average woman, but the opposing direction being taken in the figures of media personalities.
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