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Diabetes Care 29:1983 2006
DOI: 10.2337/dc06-0837
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Letters: Observations

Perception of Overweight by Mexican Physicians and Teachers

Arturo Jiménez-Cruz, MD, PHD and Montserrat Bacardí-Gascón, MD, EDD

From the Department of Nutrition, Medical School, University of Baja California México, Tijuana, México

Address correspondence to Arturo Jiménez Cruz, Calzada Tecnológico 14418, Mesa de Otay, CP 22390, Tijuana, B.C. México. E-mail: ajimenez@uabc.mx

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In a study conducted among people with diabetes, McTigue et al. (1) reported that although most overweight people with diabetes accurately perceived their weight as higher than ideal for health, many overestimated the weight that would be the healthiest for them. This result suggests that people with diabetes (and health care professionals and diabetes educators who should persuade them otherwise) see their weight as something of low importance. This could be the beginning of a trend toward reducing the importance of losing weight among health care providers. In 2004 and 2005 in Baja California, Mexico, we conducted a survey . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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