Nearly a Third of Adults Rated Obese
By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer

Americans are even fatter than they think they are, with nearly a third of all adults — almost 59 million people — rated obese in a disturbing new government survey based on actual body measurements.

One in five Americans, or 19.8 percent, had considered themselves obese in a 2000 survey based on people's own assessments of their girth.

The new 1999-2000 survey puts the real number at 31 percent — a doubling over the past two decades. The new number is considered more reliable since people consistently underestimate their weight.

"The problem keeps getting worse," said Health and Human Services secretary Tommy Thompson. "This has profound health implications."

In addition, a measurement-based survey of young people found that 15 percent of youngsters ages 6 to 19 were seriously overweight. That is nearly 9 million youths and triple the number in a similar assessment from 1980.

"One of the most significant concerns from a public health perspective is that we know a lot of children who are overweight grow up to be overweight or obese adults, and thus at greater risk for some major health problems such as heart disease and diabetes," said Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The findings appear in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association

That's Nadine Strittmatter from Elite agency in the Sonia Rykiel show. (admit it, not many webloggers can recognise a model from a mole on such a strategic place).
In the words of Suzy Menkes this morning in the Trib:
"Sex and sport are this millennium's bread and circuses - and fashion has followed suit.
"There are no prizes for guessing that Sonia Rykiel was on fashion's sexier side. She can take credit for being a pioneer of the saucy and flirtatious fashion, with hug-me-tight knits and coquettish models. Now that her daughter Nathalie has converted the original Rykiel Left Bank boutique on the Rue de Grenelle into an adults-only purveyor of boudoir fashion and luxe sex toys, the new show was bursting with visible brassieres.
"Given the over-size knits and giant blown-up images in the show, bras might have been on the large side. However, as they peeped out from scoop-front dresses or were shown as bikini tops, they were not so much D-cup as a thimble-sized and barely covering the essentials. With the models struggling to retain their decency (fig leaves would have been more effective) the show became a merry romp, in which the striped knits that are the life blood of the label managed to hold their own".
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