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“Weight loss may be necessary to reduce risks and promote health,” Mandy Conrad writes. “But weight loss alone should not be the end goal: Rather, the focus should be on overall health.”
Duvalier Malone writes that Gov. Tate Reeves’ decision to opt out of the 2024 Summer EBT program will worsen food insecurity for Mississippi children.
“If we want to foster a healthier, more prosperous Mississippi for generations to come, a multi-pronged approach elevating our students’ health and well-being while ensuring a high-quality education is paramount,” Antonio Castanon Luna writes.
“While BMI may have strong correlations with the amount of body weight composed of body fat in studies of averages of large groups of people, it does not directly measure body fat for an individual,” Dr. Scott Hagan writes. “Therefore, people with the same BMI may have substantially different body fat percentage based on a variety of factors such as age, muscle mass, sex and race.”
The Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting conducted data analysis showing that coronavirus deaths are twice as high per capita in Mississippi’s poorest counties. The death rate rose to 3.3 times higher when compared with counties where the per-capita income was at least $25,000.
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