New Yorkers are obese? Says who?
Who you calling fat?
About 1 million adult New Yorkers are obese, but nearly two-thirds of them don’t think they are, according to a study released last week by the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Among the obese, who account for about one in five New Yorkers, only 39% described themselves as “very overweight,” according to the report.
Two percent said they were very underweight; 1% said they were slightly underweight, 16% said they were just right and 42% said they were slightly overweight. New York City’s adult obesity rate was 20% in 2003 compared with 23% nationwide in 2004. The national average has nearly doubled from 12% in 1993, the report said.
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