“This may be too personal,” Becca Reed warned me as she looked at herself in the gym mirror and prepared to lift a couple of barbells. “But the fat on my upper and lower back no longer touch.”
As noted in my last column (which introduced the Reeds), Becca is involved in an experiment. She has vowed alongside her husband James and their son Drew — all of them suffering from obesity — to embrace two potentially life-changing goals: work out three times a week with trainer Mike “Bonebreaker” Crockett, and eat an exclusively plant-based diet of mostly whole foods, roughly following theEngine 2 program. With a study out last week in The Lancetcausatively linking body mass index and mortality, the family understands what’s at stake when it comes to the lifestyle changes they have chosen to pursue.
[For more of this story, written by James McWilliams, go to https://psmag.com/what-role-sh...e0f99af2d#.23fuq1qeg]
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