Contributed by: filbert Wednesday, August 02 2006 @ 08:30 AM CST
ATLANTA – More than three-quarters of obese Americanssay they have healthy eating habits, according to a survey of more than11,000 people.
About 40 percent of obese people also said they do “vigorous” exercise at least three times a week, the telephone survey found.
“There is, perhaps, some denial going on. Or there is a lack ofunderstanding of what does it mean to be eating healthy, and what isvigorous exercise,” said Dr. David Schutt of Thomson Medstat, theMichigan-based health-care research firm that conducted the survey.
Explanation #1: fat people are lazy, they lie, and are not good people. We hate them.
Alternative Explanation: “Eating healthy” doesn’t work and is the root cause of the obesity epidemic.