Putting Americans on the Scale

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A glance at the front shelves of a bookstore will confirm that Americans are obsessed with losing weight. But obsession doesn’t necessarily yield action, as you can gather from the results of a Gallup poll.

Sixty-two percent of respondents said they’re over their ideal weight. Nearly as many, 55 percent, said they’d like to lose weight. But just 27 percent said they are “seriously trying” to trim down. Such a disparity has been a fixture of Gallup polling on this subject throughout the decade.

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