23 Jul 2006 - 20:35

your own lying eyes

I mentioned in one of the Shangri-La posts that measures of BMI, for all their faults, are a more accurate measure for me than looking in the mirror — or looking at my kids.

Turns out there's a study on this subject:

Americans believe their fellow Americans have gotten fat. They consider this a serious national problem.

But when they think about weight, they appear to use different scales for different people. Nine-in-ten American adults say most of their fellow Americans are overweight. But just seven-in-ten say this about "the people they know." And just under four-in-ten (39%) say they themselves are overweight.

I'm hopeless when it comes to accurate perceptions of whether my kids are or are not overweight.

The Shangri-La Diet at Amazon
Seth Roberts website

Shangri La diet in freakonomics
Shangri La diet part 2
early adopter
diet, evolution of the brain, & McDonalds
Marginal Revolution on Shangri La
your own lying eyes
progress report 7-23-06
Jimmy 7-24-06
mind hacks & Shangri-La 7-26-06
7-29-06 update
my life and welcome to it - 8-6-06 - success
compare and contrast photo op 8-12-06
9-12-06 update
9-17-06 Jimmy is melting
10-4-2006 Dr. Erika's olive oil diet works, too

shangrila

-- CatherineJohnson - 23 Jul 2006

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