Health News
Obesity in the United States
May 3, 2006
According to a recent report in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, researchers note that the national obesity statistics rely on self-reported weight and height, which are often wrong.
People generally report inaccurate numbers for their weight and height making people sound lighter or taller than they actually are. The researchers recalculated America's obesity statistics, adjusting for those errors. The result: The nation's obesity estimates went up.