33.8% of adult Americans are obese. Centers for Disease Control, 2010
Ever notice that when people lose weight, their posture changes? Since weight loss is usually not evenly distributed, changes in body mass affects how the overall body balances, and Posture is HOW you Balance Your Body ( 2nd Posture Principle)
Weight management programs are big…and getting bigger for wellness professionals. Not surprisingly, as our collective waistlines grow, so does the market for helping people lose weight and manage their eating. And with over a third of US adults weighing in obese, they add $147 billion ( $1429. per obese person) to our healthcare costs, making it a problem with real health as well as economic consequences.
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If you have or are considering a weight management program, improve your communications and integrate bio-mechanics and bariatrics with a Posture Picture as part of your initial and follow up workups. Adding a benchmarked PostureGrid background to a photograph showing weight loss adds to the power of before and after weight loss images. In addition, measuring changes in posture alignment lines with PostureZone or other software can often explain why some NMS pains improve (or get worse) with the shifting postural mechanics of weight loss.
