Attitudes to obesity: findings from the 2015 British Social Attitudes survey

Attitudes to obesity: findings from the 2015 British Social Attitudes survey Public Health England commissioned a set of questions on obesity as part of the British Social Attitudes survey to inform its future work, this paper presents the analysis of the survey findings. The primary findings show that people underestimate their weight and struggle to identify the point when someone becomes obese. The survey also found that there is widespread understanding of some, but not all, of the health risks of obesity and that people who are obese are often the object of stigmatising attitudes. NatCen Social Research