If obesity is so rampant in society...?!
Question:
If obesity is so rampant in society...?
isn't a "normal" weight overweight? Or is it that "average" weight is overweight? Or are "normal" and "average" really the same thing?
Answers:
Normal is the ideal or optimum weight. Average is much higher than normal because for every person who is actually underweight there are probably at least 10 or even 100 who are overweight and these overweight people push up the average to well above the ideal, optimum or normal.
The above reasoning, of course, only refers to the affluent countries of the world as in starving countries such as Bangladesh, Somalia, etc the average weight is well below normal due to starvation.
So normal and overweight are quite different.