Survey reveals surprising mismatch between perception and reality of obesity in America
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Survey reveals surprising mismatch between perception and reality of obesity in America
Nearly 40 percent of American adults and 20 percent of children carry enough extra weight to warrant a diagnosis of obesity. That's the highest obesity rate among the world's affluent nations, and it's already shortening Americans' lifespans by driving up rates of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancers, arthritis and dementia. If that constitutes an urgent threat to the nation's health, you'd scarcely know it from reading the results of a newly published survey called ACTION. The new poll paints a picture of obese adults who are clueless and feel utterly on their own when it comes to losing weight and of physicians who are often too busy, too embarrassed or too ill-equipped to help them. The nation's obesity crisis has been roughly four decades in the making. The ACTION report is a humbling reminder that, at this rate, it will not be quickly reversed...Strikingly, only half of those with obesity actually perceived themselves as "obese" or "extremely obese." Among the rest, 48 percent considered themselves "overweight" and 2 percent believed they were "normal weight."
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Survey reveals surprising mismatch between perception and reality of obesity in America
Nearly 40 percent of American adults and 20 percent of children carry enough extra weight to warrant a diagnosis of obesity. That's the highest obesity rate among the world's affluent nations, and it's already shortening Americans' lifespans by driving up rates of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancers, arthritis and dementia. If that constitutes an urgent threat to the nation's health, you'd scarcely know it from reading the results of a newly published survey called ACTION. The new poll paints a picture of obese adults who are clueless and feel utterly on their own when it comes to losing weight and of physicians who are often too busy, too embarrassed or too ill-equipped to help them. The nation's obesity crisis has been roughly four decades in the making. The ACTION report is a humbling reminder that, at this rate, it will not be quickly reversed...Strikingly, only half of those with obesity actually perceived themselves as "obese" or "extremely obese." Among the rest, 48 percent considered themselves "overweight" and 2 percent believed they were "normal weight."
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-11-survey-reveals-mismatch-perception-reality.html
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