Ideal Weight is Changing for Americans
Ideal Weight is Changing for Americans
New survey results show Americans are getting too used to being fat.
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" Now with the trend everybody's working out getting healthy and looked at Wayne gyms but not on the streets obesity and an all time high. The new Gallup survey asked Americans how much they dug their way. The result the average -- 196. -- the average woman 160. Pounds that's twenty pounds more in each case. The self reported rate in the past. Experts say the results not only showed the obesity epidemic is expanding its shows -- readjusting. Our body images. In a dangerous way. The poll showed winning now think their ideal weight should be -- 38 in 1991. They thought it should be weren't wearing nine. Men said. Their idea wage should never you were 96 just with the average man thinks he raised. That sixteen pounds heavier than the war and eighty -- reported his ideal in 91. The authors say it's unclear where the change in body image comes from a willingness to -- more. Resignation. Just giving up other research shows more and more people are bucking that trend."
" It's just that part -- you know you wanna stay healthy. Eat better go to the gym work out every day."
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