Got Text Neck? Try Pilates Voice of America Pilates is a fitness regimen that has been around for nearly 100 years, using controlled movements to build strength and improve flexibility. Now, a pilates class in New York City is taking on a 21st century malady specific to our digital culture and …

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“If you go with the flow in America today,” says Thomas Freiden of the CDC, “you’ll end up obese.” He means that obesity is a side effect of progress. But not just progress: a particularly Western version of progress that we’re exporting to the rest of the world. Enormous advances in food preparation and cultivation technology. Media culture and sedentary lifestyles that participate in it. A …

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The Moral Urgency Of Obesity