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Norms and attitudes to body fatness: a European comparison

Population and Societies

455, April 2009

The growing problem of obesity is a major public health issue in many industrialized countries. As overweight becomes a greater focus of attention, how do individuals assess their own body fatness? Do men and women see things in the same way? Do perceptions differ across Europe? After describing the variations in mean body mass index between countries, Thibaut de Saint Pol analyses the way European men and women perceive their own body.

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