Only about a tenth of clinically obese people in Britain actually accept that they have a serious weight problem, according to a new study.
Researchers found that 11 per cent of obese women and 7 per cent of obese men acknowledged they were obese. A further 23 per cent of women and 16 per cent of men admitted that they were “very overweight”, with the remainder believing they were simply “overweight” or even “just right”.
The study, funded by Cancer Research UK and published in the journal BMJ Open, also found only 10 per cent of people knew the body mass index (BMI) threshold for obesity was 30.
Researchers said that their findings probably reflected obesity being seen as more normal because of a