Study: Obese Americans Suffer 'Body Size Misperception'

[71buickfreak]

In February of '09, I was diagnosed with Diabetes (typeII). The January before, I weighed in at 246 (6') and I that was WAY too much, so I changed my diet. When I did that, I started getting sick all the time. felt horrible. I went to the doc and they tested me out- early stage diabetes. Most people don't catch it when it first comes around, it takes decades to damage your organs and such. If I had not changed my diet, I would have never known. I now weigh in at 210, with no changes other than diet and I manage my 'betes with diet, no pills. There are two ways you get type II diabetes- one being fat, and two genetics. I recently discovered my grandmother has diabetes (has for years, just never told anybody), my dad most likely died from complications to untreated diabetes this year, and my great grandfather had type II. My grandmother is not obese either. SO I can thank genetics for my situation, but my mom has type II and it is weight related. I never knew it was all around me until I already had it.

MY goal is 180, but it is going to take excersize to get to that point. I am trying to get to 200 on diet alone. Diabetes is much easier to manage under 210 lbs than it is a 212, which is wierd.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Well, usually in political poll and other polls and stats, it takes 55%-65% respondents marking X, Y, or Z before it is generally accepted that a solid or strong majority fall into the category.

Here, not only is it not 60%, it's NINETY-TWO percent the opposite direction, so nothing could possibly be more false than to say what the title says, that "Study: Obese Americans Suffer 'Body Size Misperception' ". Not saying that the OP is saying something false, just that the posted article is.

The correct title should be "Contrary To What Researchers Had Hypothesized, Study Shows That The Overwhelming Majority of Obese Do Not Suffer Delusions About Their True Health Status" - something on that order.

 

[cjjtulsa]

I'm tall and thin, and constantly get called, "skinny", etc., even though my BMI is just about right (6'-5", 190-200lbs). I've come to the realization that most people are now fat, so it's become the norm to be overweight, and those of us that represent the "old normal" are now considered skinny. I guess I need to put on 50 or 60 lbs.....bring on the BBQ, baby!

 

[Gideon]

I think it's high time we take political action to take advantage of this new demographic.

I hereby found the Cake Party. We're against war, because you have to be in shape to fight. We're against abortion and killing babies, unless we can get some sweet baby back ribs out of the deal. We're tired of unfair taxes on food that give the rich and slim the advantage, LET'S GO TAKE BACK THE WHITE HOUSE!

 

[JB Books]

I think it's high time we take political action to take advantage of this new demographic.

I hereby found the Cake Party. We're against war, because you have to be in shape to fight. We're against abortion and killing babies, unless we can get some sweet baby back ribs out of the deal. We're tired of unfair taxes on food that give the rich and slim the advantage, LET'S GO TAKE BACK THE WHITE HOUSE!

We can have cake with our tea and taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake oooouuuuuurrrrr coooooooooouuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnttttttrrrrrryyyyyyyy baaaaaaaaaack!