This "LIFE" article talks about the top rated health issue in the U.S. was obesity, which Dorothy Bradley struggled with. Bradley wanted to go into the medical field to become a doctor, so when she was around 205lbs. she felt like it was her time to lose the weight and get into good shape. When she started to do so, she fell short considering she didn't have the money to keep up. Within two years of being on a strict diet she lost 60lbs. After losing some weight she graduated with her nursing "cap" and became a head nurse in Kentucky. There are pills that people can take to lose but this was not a healthy way to do so. Bradley took it into her own hands, she went to see a doctor, went on a diet, fell short, began her diet again. This article shows us that a woman who was considered obese turns out to be a head nurse after her journey of being on a diet. I feel as if this is important to not only the article but the picture because it shows Bradley working out and sticking to her plan of getting into better shape and losing the access weight she had. It is also important because it shows many people that just because you are overweight doesn't mean that something is impossible. Although Bradley fell short of becoming a doctor she didn't give up entirely, she became a head nurse.

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