Obesity - Health Study Researchers asked 450 random patients in
a Florida hospital emergency department two questions: Do you
believe your present weight is unhealthy, and has a doctor ever
said you are overweight? Of those reporting that their weight
was unhealthy, only 19 percent said they’d ever discussed it
with a doctor. And only 30 percent of those who reported being
told by their doctor that their weight was unhealthy agreed with
that opinion. Researchers also measured body mass index and
waist circumference, indicators of body fat. About 47 percent of
obese and overweight men said they believed their weight was
problematic; 53 percent didn’t. “People generally hear what they
want to hear,” say boomer generation health experts Dian
Griesel, Ph.D., and Tom Griesel, authors of the new book
TurboCharged: Accelerate Your Fat Burning Metabolism, Get Lean
Fast and Leave Diet and Exercise Rules in the Dust (April 2011,
BSH). “Today, anyone who thinks being obese is not a health risk
is kidding themselves.” “I