"One final aspect of this study needs to be highlighted. According to the Times, it “found that increased risk of death from obesity was seen for the most part in the extremely obese, a group constituting only 8 percent of Americans.” Meanwhile, the study found that “overweight” people were actually less likely to die than people with a “normal” weight. When obesity scaremongers declare that 65 percent of Americans are too fat, they’re including people who are merely “overweight.” The real issue affects less than 10 percent of the population, not the two-thirds of Americans routinely pressured to lose weight."