Tag: fatness
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Can You Be Fat and Fit?
I was browsing some headlines on the interwebs today and I found an interesting report about a study about fatness vs fitness and risk of high blood pressure. In general the study showed that fatness was linked to high blood pressure even if those people scored well on ‘fitness’ tests. The more interesting part was…
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Fitness vs Fatness…A false Dichotomy
In yesterdays discussion the common logical fallacy was brought up about the false dichotomy between “fitness” and “fatness”. This is a false dichotomy because ‘fitness’ is not the opposite of ‘fatness’…not always. To start off we have to define the logical fallacy “false dichotomy” A false dichotomy is an erroneous reduction of many possibilities down…