Paolo Pizzi wrote:
> Ron Hunter wrote:
>
>
>>Quite true. ON my visit to Europe, I saw quite as many
>>obese, often grossly obese, people as I see here in the US.
>
>
> Judging by your blatant lies, I'd say you are a Republican.
>
> For anyone else, here's some SCIENTIFIC facts, from a
> reputable US source:
>
> "The study authors discovered this country had the highest rates of obese
> (24 percent) and very obese (13 percent) people and the lowest rates of
> normal (22 percent) people. Asia had the highest rate of normal-weight
> individuals (58 percent), Western Europe came next (31 percent), followed
> by Eastern Europe (29 percent), Latin America (28 percent), Australia/New
> Zealand (26 percent), and Canada (23 percent). Australia/New Zealand and
> Canada tied for second place in the "very obese" category (7 percent each),
> followed by Latin America (6 percent), Eastern and Western Europe (4
> percent each), and Asia (1 percent)."
>
> http://www.healthfinder.gov/news/new...p?docID=512510
>
> Bottom line: there are OVER THREE TIMES more "severely obese"
> people in the US (13%) than in Europe (4%.)
>
>
Judging by your insults, and calling a reported observation a lie, I
would guess you are a democrat. For the record, I am an independent. I
figure that if one gets too wrapped up in a political party, he might
forget his country.
I saw what I saw. Whether it is representative I can't say, given that
I saw only a minescule percentage of the European population, and have
seen only a similarly small percentage of the US population. It is
interesting that your numbers corelate nicely with the income of the
people of the countries you mentioned. I suppose you would advocate
that if we want to slim down, we should reduce our income to that of the
mentioned countries. If so, you first.