Study: Overweight People Aren’t Lazy

Don’t call them couch potatoes. A new study conducted in Spokane shows overweight people are exercising and trying to get healthy. “Our research showed a group of people who are trying,” said Deborah Walton Smith (pictured), a senior lecturer at Gonzaga University and a family nurse practitioner at a clinic in north Spokane. Her work, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, was conducted while she was earning a doctorate through Case Western Reserve University. The study relied on questionnaires answered by 175 people from Spokane who were patients of family nurse practitioners at two local clinics. All were overweight – including more than half who would be considered obese/ John Stucke , SR. More here.

Question: Do you think overweight people are lazy?