According to a new report, a good number of the fat people of our fair city don’t think there’s anything wrong with them:
The study, based on survey data collected in Dallas, found that one in 10 participants – all of whom were classified as obese – were satisfied with their body size and didn’t think they needed to lose a few.
“That is a sizeable percentage who don’t understand they are overweight and believe they are healthy,” said lead researcher Tiffany Powell, a cardiology fellow at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
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