New research suggests that more than two-thirds of Canadians are overweight, not less than half, as commonly reported.
It kills me when the news reports things like "teens having sex more than in the past" - like, how could they possibly know? Then you read the article and it turns out they mean "teens SAY they're having more sex." Self-reported surveys are bogus - people will lie about their sex life, their weight and height, and anything else. There was a survey a few years back where they went to a small town in Indiana and asked people if they had gone to church last Sunday. The researchers had actually fanned out and attended every church service in town and counted the congregations. Of course the numbers were way less than what people said. People will even lie about what magazines they read. Self-reported surveys would have you believe that the New Yorker and Harpers have huge circulations and People and Maxim hardly anything. Yeah, right.