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Many of us are shorter and heavier than we think we are, according to a study that compared people’s self-reported height and weight with their actual measurements.
James Hodge and his colleagues at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, Georgia, looked at how well people know their own measurements.

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Many studies investigating the relationship between body size and disease risk tend to rely on people’s self-reported height and weight. This can lead to unreliable data and flawed results. Instead, in this study, the researchers asked 2643 people in …