Study: Overweight Woman Think They’re Normal, Normal Women Think They’re Overweight

In a study of 2,200 low-income women who were surveyed at Texas reproductive health clinics, researchers found some pretty widespread confusion: 23 percent of overweight women saw themselves as normal, while 16 percent of normal-weighted women thought they were too fat, according to a report in Time.

“If you go somewhere, you see all the overweight people that think they are normal even though they’re overweight,” lead researcher Mahbubur Rahman, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMBG), told HealthDay, which reported:

Among overweight women, 28 percent of blacks and about 25 percent of Hispanics considered their weight within the normal range, compared to 15 percent of overweight white women.

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