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Why Overweight Men Underestimate Their Girth

Has obesity become the norm? That is the question posed in a recent PsyPost study. They examined the phenomena where overweight or obese men are viewed as being in a healthy weight range. The obesity epidemic is a catastrophe. Today about 75 percent of U.S. men and 67 percent of U.S. women are either overweight or obese. Bodyweight is not the only important indicator but the fact that the average U.S. woman now weighs as much as the average U.S. man weighed in the 1960s is extremely...