Thursday, December 1, 2011
Food & Life Eat, drink and increase your ideal weight
Posted by Cliff Bostock @cliffbostock on Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:25 AM
- The Daily Mail
Figures in this year's Health and Healthcare Survey are pretty damn shocking. Since 1990, average weights for men and women have increased 20 lbs. But we've headed-off serious distress by telling ourselves a flattering lie: We've increased our definition of our ideal weight by 10 lbs. The LA Times says:
Gallup's findings help paint a grim picture of mass delusion in the United States about its rising weight and the spate of health problems that come with it. American parents are notoriously poor judges of their childrens' weight, as well. The result: Primary care physicians, long reluctant to lecture their patients about weight loss, now debate how best to break the news to patients and their parents that they are above their healthy weights.
(Click on the picture to read an article about children and holiday meal consumption.)
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