Nearly 25 percent of overweight women misperceive body weight

Monday, November 22, 2010 - 17:30 in Psychology & Sociology

A startling number of overweight and normal weight women of reproductive age inaccurately perceive their body weight, affecting their weight-related behaviors and making many vulnerable to cardiovascular and other obesity-related diseases, according to new research from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston.

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