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Men and women are different.

Well, you might say, that’s obvious! Certainly it is, on the surface. But those differences also exist on deeper and less recognizable emotional and psychological levels – as laid out in John Gray’s 1992 bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.

Such is the case in the realm of weight-loss, today taking on an ever-higher profile as the medical community decries an escalating epidemic of obesity. Seniors know all about it – the first thing their doctor says, viewing the post-middle-age spread and contemplating high blood pressure, high cholesterol or shortness of breath is: lose some weight!

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A smaller waistline

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It can’t be seen in the blackened, silhouetted series of arm and shoulder warm-ups that are being shown with this article, but I have developed... more