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Weight perceptions
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Varying views on overweight
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Nine out of 10 Americans think most of their fellow citizens are overweight, a new survey shows. But only 70 percent believe that most of the people they know are. And when it comes to themselves, only about 4 of 10 think they weigh too much.
The numbers may not seem to add up, but that is what a study from the Pew Research Center found in surveying more than 2,250 adults about the worsening obesity problem.
``People tend to see the weight problem of the nation as a whole as being greater than the weight problems of their friends and acquaintances,'' said the report, online at pewresearch.org.
The survey respondents are certainly right when it comes to the big picture. Federal studies, the report noted, estimate that about 31 percent of American adults are obese, and that an additional third are overweight.
``But when they think about weight,'' the researchers wrote of the people surveyed, ``they appear to use different scales for different people.''(NYT)
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