most people delude themselves into thinking that they aren't overweight or obese

Research shows that doctors are routinely failing their patients by not pointing out that they are suffering from obesity. Published by the Archives of Internal Medicine it makes clear that most people delude themselves into thinking that they are not overweight or obese and nobody seems to be warning them that in fact they are, and of the dangers that it will do to their health.

The study which examined the medical data of almost 8,000 individuals between the ages of 20 and 64 who had taken part in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) observed that less than half [45%] of those who were clinically overweight [having a BMI of between 25 and 30] had been informed by their doctor about their weight problem.

Incredibly, 1/3 of the individuals who were actually obese [having a BMI of more than 30] had also never been warned by a doctor that they needed to lose weight. The statistics also show that 37 percent of the overweight individuals who hadn't been informed by their doctors of their weight problem claimed not to know that they were actually overweight. Almost twenty percent of the obese individuals said the same.

Because of the growing obesity problem in countries like the United Kingdom it is becoming normal to be overweight and therefore many people genuinely don't understand the risks and dangers that they put themselves in by having extra fat on their bodies.

The problem is probably greatest in America where in certain areas there are far more people with weight problems than without and therefore thin and healthy people are almost unwelcome.

Doctors have been known to not mention a weight problem because they don't want to deal with the embarrassment or humiliate their patients, but by ignoring it they could be jeopardizing lives and failing in their duty as doctors.