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Americans believe their fellow Americans have gotten fat. They consider this a serious national problem. But when they think about weight, they appear to use different scales for different people. Nine-in-ten American adults say most of their fellow Americans are overweight.
But just seven-in-ten say this about "the people they know." And just under four-in-ten (39%) say they themselves are overweight.