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Who you calling fat?
Some 1 million adult New Yorkers are obese, but nearly two-thirds of
them don't think they are, according to a study released on Tuesday by the
city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Among the obese, who account for about one in five New Yorkers, only 39
percent described themselves as "very overweight," according to the
report.
Two percent said they were very underweight, 1 percent said they were
slightly underweight, 16 percent said they were just right and 42 percent
said they were slightly overweight.
About 2 million more New Yorkers are overweight, the report said, and
one in five children in kindergarten is obese.
Only 44 percent of the city's adults are at a healthy weight, and
nearly 75 percent say they do not participate in any regular physical
activity.
New York City's adult obesity rate was 20 percent in 2003 compared with
23 percent nationwide in 2004. The national average has nearly doubled
from 12 percent in 1993, the report said.
Overweight and obese are defined by body mass index, or BMI, which is
based on a person's weight, adjusted for height, the department said.
Being obese means having a BMI of 30 or greater, while being overweight
means a BMI of more than 25 but less than 30.
A 5-foot, 10-inch (1.78-meter) man weighing 175 pounds (79 kg) would
have a BMI of 25.1 and be considered overweight, according to the
department. If he weighed 210 pounds (95 kg), he would have a BMI of 30.1
and be obese.
The report was compiled from results of the department's 2002 and 2003
annual telephone surveys of some 10,000 adults.
(Agencies) |
什么樣的體格算得上肥胖呢？
紐約市健康和心理衛生部于本周二公布了一項調查結果：大約100萬的紐約成年人都有“肥胖”問題，但是他們中近2/3的人并不覺得自己肥胖。
根據調查報告，肥胖人群占到紐約總人口的1/5左右，但只有39%的人意識到自己“超重”。
其中2%的肥胖者認為自己的體重遠遠不達標，1%的人說他們離標準體重還差點，16%的人說自己不胖不瘦，42%的人覺得自己只是有一點超重。
報告顯示，200多萬的紐約人都偏胖，連幼兒園的小朋友中都有1/5體重超標。
紐約只有44%的成年人體重正常，近75%的紐約人說他們從不進行定期的體育鍛煉。
2003年紐約的成人肥胖率達到20%，而2004年全美國的成人肥胖率為23%。報告表明，目前全國的平均肥胖率在1993年12%的基礎上幾乎翻了一番。
據市健康和心理衛生部介紹，是否超重或肥胖是由體重指數來衡量的，體重指數是一個人的身高和體重之間的比例。
如果體重指數達到30或更大，此人一定肥胖；而體重指數在25到30之間則是超重。
健康和心理衛生部說，一個身高1.78米體重79公斤的男人體重指數為25.1，則被認定為超重。如果他的體重為95公斤，那么他的體重指數是30.1，就是肥胖了。
此報告根據健康和心理衛生部2002年和2003年的年度電話調查編寫而成，大概有1萬個成年人參加了調查。
(中國日報網站編譯) |
Updated: 2005-11-28 08:46
