Adults are underestimating the problem of obesity in Britain. Though they are facing the problem of obesity, they are reluctant to accept it. The stigma attached to being obese is a major reason for their denial.

The researchers report in the British Medical Journal has pointed out in a survey that problem of clinically overweight or obese people have increased. This survey is a result of findings of facts between 1999 and 2007.

Dr Ian Campbell has said that people are becoming obese day by day. The average weight and average appearance has become heavier and rounder in general public.

People are asked to give their height and weight in the survey. It was aimed to calculate their BMI. People were also asked to categorize themselves as very underweight, underweight, about right, overweight or very overweight. But most of the adults did not justified with the reality.

The proportion of obese people was 11% in 1999 which is increased to 19 per cent in 2007. 43% of the population had a BMI that put them in the overweight or obese range in 1999 and 81 per cent correctly identified themselves as overweight. In 2007 only 75 per cent people classed themselves as obese. This vindicates that people are hesitating to classified themselves as obese.