Many Overweight Americans Don’t Realize They’re Overweight, Gallup Data Show.

reports new Gallup data reveals “7 in 10 Americans are obese or overweight, but only 36 percent think they have a weight problem.” The Times recalls that in 1990, “about 56 percent of Americans qualified as obese or overweight,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and “48 percent considered themselves ‘very’ or ‘somewhat’ overweight, according to Gallup.” The article suggests that the “gap between how fat we think we are and how fat we are” has widened as obesity has normalized. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/01/nearly-half-of-americas-overweight-people-dont-realize-theyre-overweight/?utm_term=.89fe43f8adf1