Learning To Live With Obesity

Obesity affects more than a third of Americans, complicating health, relationships and, sometimes, happiness. All of those Americans have their own stories about how they gained weight and what role it plays – or doesn’t – in their lives.

As part of Here & Now‘s weeklong series, America On The Scale, host Jeremy Hobson speaks with three people who all have dealt with obesity in different ways: one is struggling to lose weight, one has succeeded in losing weight and one has decided not to lose weight.

Guests

• Ronald Rios, 20-year-old living outside of Bend, Oregon.
• Maura Flanagan, resident of Bethesda, Maryland, in her 50s.
• Tolonda Henderson, poet in her 30s and a resident of Alexandria, Virginia. She tweets @tolondathepoet.

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