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Over the last few months I’ve been taking part in the Weight Watchers® Walk-!t Challenge. The program is a partnership between Weight Watchers and Active.com that encouraged Weight Watchers members to sign up for and complete a 5K walk for charity. As part of the program Weight Watchers provided trainers to those who signed up for the challenge to help prepare them for the 5k. I’ve never taken part in any kind of event like this before, so while I already walk considerably more than 5k on a daily basis I thought it was a great opportunity to get some more exercise in to my routine and I signed up.
I got an email this morning from my trainer that got me thinking. Amusingly enough it wasn’t part of the email itself but her signature that sent the wheels in my head spinning.
As much as we’d like to avoid it, the fact of the matter is that there are occasions when covering the health and fitness end of the news spectrum is going to lead us here at ShrinkGeek into the murky waters of personal politics. On the whole we strive to be as politically neutral as we can simply due to the fact that we do not wish to alienate readers who may not agree with our views. We want everyone to be healthy, regardless of where they fall in the political spectrum.