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FETCHER. · 11-06-2009, 08:31 AM

I thought America was already the most overweight country. It comes as a shock that it isn't

seriously I am surprised.

Guybrush · 11-06-2009, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Pillowmint

Not true

I'm not sure if America is the most obese nation in the world, but you guys sure rank pretty high.

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Originally Posted by wikipedia

Obesity in the United States has been increasingly cited as a major health issue in recent decades. While many industrialized countries have experienced similar increases, obesity rates in the United States are among the highest in the world with 64% of adults being overweight or obese, and 26% are obese. Estimates of the number of obese American adults have been rising steadily, from 19.4% in 1997, 24.5% in 2004 to 26.6% in 2007. Should current trends continue, 75% of adults in the US are projected to be overweight and 41% obese by 2015.

I edited out the references, but they're in the original article of course.

>> Obesity in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Perhaps also interesting :

>> Epidemiology of obesity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

~~Flower Child~~ · 11-06-2009, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by nonsubmissivewife

I've got to agree with you there. I've never understood the appeal of having two tone hair myself. I did it once (because I tried to dye my hair black and this was the only way they could fix it...they said). It took forever for it to grow out and everytime I went to get my hair cut they would push me to get it touched up. Just wanted it out! It seems like it would be hard to maintain the look anyway, and costly. And for what? It doesn't even look natural.

Yes, yes, yes. I'm glad I'm not the only one!

right-track · 11-06-2009, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

... considering America is the most obese country on earth.

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Originally Posted by Pillowmint

Not true

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Originally Posted by toretorden

I'm not sure if America is the most obese nation in the world, but you guys sure rank pretty high.

I edited out the references, but they're in the original article of course.

>> Obesity in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Well, are the Americans the fattest bastards on earth, or not?
And if not, who is?

wickedlk · 11-06-2009, 01:12 PM

Obesity epidemic : the ten countries with the fattest people

Wasn't expecting that!

music_phantom13 · 11-06-2009, 01:31 PM

Yeah, I thought we were a bunch of fatties. Well, we are, but I had no idea there were so many fat people in the Middle East. I hope I don't follow in the footsteps of my heritage

I would hate being a fat person.

FETCHER. · 11-06-2009, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by wickedlk

Obesity epidemic : the ten countries with the fattest people

Wasn't expecting that!

I thought Britain would have been in that actually.

boo boo · 11-06-2009, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by wickedlk

Obesity epidemic : the ten countries with the fattest people

Wasn't expecting that!

Well then, I stand corrected.

Pillowmint · 11-08-2009, 07:35 AM

I thought Pacific Islands nations like Nauru or Vanuautu were some of the fattest

Guybrush · 11-12-2009, 07:04 AM

Looking at that page, what one should remember is that quite a few of the nations mentioned are relatively small, for example Bahrain with a population of 1.2 million people who are probably quite culturally alike are compared to a nation like USA which comprises over 300 million people and everywhere from really poor people to very rich people in very different cultures.

I'm sure if you split up America into different cultures or geographical regions and so on, you would find different groups of people that would vary a lot. Some of them would be tremendously fat I'm sure while others would probably be much thinner.

Also, the test seems to be for obesity rather than people being fat and although the correlation between fat and obese is probably quite similar across borders, if you only look at obesity, you could perhaps in theory have a country where 100% of the population is fat but they don't make the list because not enough of them are obese.

Furthermore, the guy who published it to his blog has done his own calculations. It's not scientific studies - or at least we don't know the sources for the data.

Fun, but think before you swallow it whole.

edit :

I argued that certain trends in big nations like America may not be well represented in such nation-wide statistics. Here's an example :

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The rates however are as high as 50% among African American women.

source : Epidemiology of obesity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ~ "International Obesity Task Force" (PDF). March 15 2005. http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_determ...ts/iotf_en.pdf. Retrieved 2008-09-19.

Judging by that bit of info, afro-american women seem to blow those Quatar first-placers right out of the water.

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wickedlk It's my Mau5head! Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: UK Posts: 233	Obesity epidemic : the ten countries with the fattest people Wasn't expecting that! __________________ So many memories, so many stories!

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music_phantom13 Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 942	Yeah, I thought we were a bunch of fatties. Well, we are, but I had no idea there were so many fat people in the Middle East. I hope I don't follow in the footsteps of my heritage I would hate being a fat person.

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Pillowmint I Am the Lizard Queen Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Rhode Island Posts: 134	I thought Pacific Islands nations like Nauru or Vanuautu were some of the fattest