Weight in the Eye of the Beholder?
Written by Ann Pietrangelo on September 3rd, 2010 in In The News, Linked Articles.
Thirty percent of overweight Americans simply do not see themselves that way… and 11 million live with some form of eating disorder.
Perhaps beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to weight, a lot of us are downright confused about what we are beholding.
According to a Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll, 30 percent of people who are overweight think they are actually of “normal” size. Seventy percent of obese people say they are merely overweight and 39 percent of morbidly obese people think they are overweight, but not obese.
We’re not only having difficulty with perception, we are awash in a sea of eating disorders. Americans’ relationship with food and weight is a complicated one.
Read the article:
Poll Finds 70% of Obese People Think They’re Just Overweight
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