"Omelet" > wrote in message
news
> In article >,
> Michel Boucher > wrote:
>
>> Omelet > wrote in
>> news >>
>> > You don't see a lot of fat Indians.
>>
>> You don't?
>>
>> "The World Health Organization (WHO) officially classified that 1.2
>> billion people around the world are overweight and in India itself
>> more than 25 per cent of the Indian population is overweight with
>> statistics continuing to rise due to the changing lifestyle."
>>
>> also
>>
>> http://www.drsharma.ca/obesity-epidemic-hits-india.html
>>
>> also
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/2g5syow
>>
>> (http://www.ispub.com/journal/the_int..._health/volume
>> _9_number_1_12/article_printable/dietary-and-socio-economic-
>> factors-associated-with-obesity-in-north-indian-population.html)
>>
>> So...where did THAT come from?
>
> There are a lot more fat Americans. ;-)
> The new hospital system I work for has a LOT more Indians than the one I
> used to work for. Not a single one (that I have met) is fat.
>
> <http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity>
>
> Interesting that India did not even make it on to this chart.
>
> I guess it depends on the website?
> --
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>
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First of all, the data on your site is comprised of relatively old data from
2002 and 2003, and is based on data gathered from routine health
examinations only. Notice how all the countries on your list are highly
industrialized countries with higher standards of living and access to
healthcare than other countries. There's not one developing country on the
list. In India as in other developing countries, access to healthcare,
especially for routine health examinations, is not readily available. If
you don't have people going in for routine well-checkups, you're not going
to have data.

Secondly, your extremely limited experience and observation of Indian people
in *Texas* is hardly representative of Indians in general, and more
specifically Indians in India. And the fact that you use that observation
to back up your claim is laughable.

Jinx