Some People OK With Obesity

Baack · Nov 23, 2009

Nearly one obese person in 10 feels no need to lose weight or prevent further weight gain, researchers found.

Most obese people with these body size misperceptions thought their health was above average and their lifetime cardiovascular and diabetes risk low, said Dr. Tiffany Powell of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and colleagues.
Their analysis of the Dallas Heart Study, reported at the American Heart Association meeting last week, suggested that physicians have a role in correcting these impressions.
"We can't necessarily just say you have to be comfortable with who you are," Powell said. "We have to really emphasize the direct link between obesity, risk factors, and cardiovascular disease."
Obese individuals in the study who didn't think they needed to lose weight appeared not to be getting those messages.
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southernpride · Nov 23, 2009

now i believe that its none of my busines if a person wonts to be fat its there busines not mine just as if they want to smoke letem its not my business if most people would mind ther on busines and leave other people to mind there on we would all be a lot better off and that encludes the bible thumpers and the tobaco thumpers along with anything else, if its not your busines just leave it alone .

everyone has the right to do and be what ever they want let them do it .---southernpride

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