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| 9/10/2010 |
Americans' Perception Of Own Weight Skewed
(Undated) -- Many Americans have an unrealistic perception of their own weight. A Harris Interactive/HealthDay survey calculated the body-mass index of more than 24-hundred American adults and asked them which weight category they thought they fit into. Nearly a third of respondents who were overweight according to their BMI believed themselves to be a normal size. Seventy percent of obese respondents classified themselves as simply "overweight," while more than 90 percent of morbidly obese respondents described themselves as either "overweight" or simply "obese." The majority of respondents who thought they were heavier than normal blamed a lack of exercise -- not food -- for their weight woes. Researchers say the findings may help explain the skyrocketing overweight and obesity rates in the U.S. |
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