MUNICH – Around 30 per cent of Germans find themselves overweight, a newly released survey commissioned by a German health magazine has shown.
The Nuremberg-based market research institute interviewed about 2,000 men and women aged over 14 years for the magazine “Apotheken Umschau’’.
In the survey, 27.9 per cent of men feel that they are too corpulent.
Women are more critical when it comes to their bodies, 38.3 per cent of them complain of too many pounds on the hips, abdomen or thighs.
In the survey, 3.4 per cent of the participants identified themselves as obese.
But the actual number of overweighed is higher.
According to a study of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, which is a part of the Federal Ministry of Health, 67 per cent of men and 53 per cent of women aged from 18 years old are overweight. (dpa/NAN)
