Feeling fat may be worse for you than being fat
Obesity’s health effects could have more to do with feeling bad about being fat than actually being overweight, a new study shows. Researchers who looked at a nationally representative group of more than 170,000 US adults found the difference actual weight and perceived ideal weight was a better indicator of mental and physical health than body mass index (BMI).
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American Journal of Public Health
Posted by on 02/01 at 10:08 AM
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