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We’re a nation with a massively bulging waistline. Study
after study — not to mention personal experience — shows that’s true.
But a report released last week found that some obesity studies may actually
understate the crisis — because of people fudging their true weight
and height. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health came
to their conclusion by examining two national surveys of girth.

The Harvard researchers combined data from the state-by-state
phone surveys and found that among men, 22 percent reported that they
were obese. For women, it was 21 percent. But the more thorough in-person
survey discovered that 29 percent of men and 35 percent of women were
obese.

”It must be that people are intentionally
or unintentionally misreporting their weights and heights," said
Harvard population health researcher Majid Ezzati, lead author of the
study.

from the Boston
Globe

Original study, from the Journal
of the Royal Society of Medicine (PDF)

We’re a nation with a massively bulging waistline. Study
after study — not to mention personal experience — shows that’s true.
But a report released last week found that some obesity studies may actually
understate the crisis — because of people fudging their true weight
and height. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health came
to their conclusion by examining two national surveys of girth.

The Harvard researchers combined data from the state-by-state
phone surveys and found that among men, 22 percent reported that they
were obese. For women, it was 21 percent. But the more thorough in-person
survey discovered that 29 percent of men and 35 percent of women were
obese.

”It must be that people are intentionally
or unintentionally misreporting their weights and heights," said
Harvard population health researcher Majid Ezzati, lead author of the
study.

from the Boston
Globe

Original study, from the Journal
of the Royal Society of Medicine (PDF)

Think the people who while away their hours reading and
commenting on political blogs are slovenly twenty-somethings with nothing
better to do?

Think again, said a survey last week by Blogads, a company that many leading
political blogs have used for ad placements.

In an unscientific Web survey of 36,000 people, Blogads reported that
political blog readers tend to be age 41 to 50, male (72 percent), and
earn $60,000 to $90,000 per year. Two in five have college degrees, while
just a tad less have graduate degrees.

from the Washington Post

Gotta love those unscientific surveys. Excuse us while we let our inner slovenly twenty-something out to air…..