Despite such a high rate, there is widespread discrimination against overweight people.
The author of this study suggests that these results may be due to a widespread perception of overweight and negative body image among adolescent girls who then exercise to lose weight.
But far beyond the pages of the Mail – or the reviews of Melissa McCarthy's new movie, for that matter – there's a widespread belief that hectoring the overweight is forgivable, or perhaps even a virtuous expression of tough love.
The limitations and uncertainties of some of the collected information will hardly obscure our major finding of a widespread and substantial impact of overweight and obesity on morbidity from several chronic diseases.
18 Widespread screening for Cushing's syndrome in overweight individuals or patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus is therefore not recommended.
The field of nutrition research has developed similarly from prevalent undernutrition and vitamin deficiencies into a period of food abundance and widespread overnutrition, in which the threat of overweight and obesity is increasing, particularly for children.
Despite economic, social, cultural and religious differences among them, overweight and obesity are becoming a widespread issue common for all infrequently distant countries.
School letters sent to parents telling them their children are overweight should not be watered down despite widespread anger, the chief medical officer has said, arguing against the "normalisation" of obesity.
This mirrors more widespread beliefs that obese individuals are responsible for being overweight and that weight gain or loss is under their personal control [ 21].
Obesity is an epidemic, a crisis whose impact is widespread — over 27 percent of young adults in America are too overweight to serve in our military.
Exclusion criteria were widespread pain, prior neck trauma, rheumatoid arthritis, drug or alcohol abuse, overweight, and grave depression.
