Post-Crescent: Area residents have taken weight off their shoulders, and other body parts
Two hundred and thirty is a very lucky number for Ruth Kieffer, 40, of Neenah. In October 2001 both her weight and cholesterol had skyrocketed to that perilous figure.
“I really didn’t think I’d live to be a ripe old age if I didn’t do something about myself,” Kieffer said. Frightened by a growing list of health problems, which included unexplained abdominal pain, fevers, nausea, frequent migraines, severe leg pain and fatigue, as well as her doctor’s warning that she was headed for type 2 diabetes...
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