Background Increased physical activity is often recommended for weight maintenance and loss. Therefore many overweight persons want to take up running as a form of exercise. Although running has ...

never or rarely run, while one in 10 people don’t engage in this form of exercise because they think they’re too overweight to do so — or they’re embarrassed for other people to see them run.

The ad highlights some of Hovde’s comments he made during his 2012 Senate run in which he implied and later stated overweight people should pay more for healthcare. Hovde is the leading ...

The duo further noted that there could be various reasons why overweight people or those with a higher BMI could have a mortality risk that was similar to those with a “normal” BMI.