Now here is where we are sinking. Most Americans are becoming fat & lazy. Check out this comparison. From my travels I think it’s right on.
Gotta love Europe!
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Hopefully you pick the European to take here for a round. Need pump jacks under there for the fatty.
Brilliant.
This has already been posted here a few times. Still funny though.
This has already been posted here a few times. Still funny though.
A few HUNDRED times.
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The latest is that there are certain groups that want a warning label on soda bottles. Can’t these people have some will power and stop grazing like cows in the pasture. Hot dogs, soda & chips. The American Way to the grave.
We (USA) seem to be very “hourglassy” in our athleticness. It seems folks are either very fit and athletic or very not athletic and fit … as if there is “no middle ground” between being athletic and obese.
I don’t know much about Europe … but, I doubt the typical female looks like the one in the OP … please tell me I am wrong.
OK…it looks like Europe is doing a catch up on the US when it comes to over weight & out of shape teenagers. I enclosed an article that is worth reading if you have kids.
**Study Says U.S. Teens Are Fattest **
By: Associated Press
Jan 10, 2004, 15:12
Associated Press (Jan 05, 04:35 PM) Teenagers in the United States have higher rates of obesity than those in 14 other industrialized countries, including France and Germany, a study of nearly 30,000 youngsters ages 13 and 15 found.
Among American 15-year-olds, 15 percent of girls and nearly 14 percent of boys were obese, and 31 percent of girls and 28 percent of boys were more modestly overweight.
The findings are based on school questionnaires given to youngsters in the 15 countries in 1997 and 1998. The study was led by Inge Lissau, a researcher at the National Institute of Public Health in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was published in the January issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
The heaviest countries, based on data from 15-year-olds, also included Greece, Portugal, Israel, Ireland and Denmark.
U.S. teens were more likely than those in other countries to eat fast food, snacks and sugary sodas and were more likely to be driven to school and other activities, contributing to a more sedentary lifestyle, said co-author Mary Overpeck of the U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
“The rest of the world may be catching up, but we’re still in first place in a race that unfortunately we shouldn’t want to be winning,” said Dr. David Ludwig, an obesity researcher at Children’s Hospital Boston who was not involved in the study. He led a study published Monday in another journal, Pediatrics, that found that nearly one-third of U.S. youngsters eat fast food on any given day.
Lithuania had the lowest obesity rates in the latest study. Among Lithuanian 15-year-olds, about 2 percent of girls and 0.8 percent of boys were obese, and 8 percent of girls and 5 percent of boys were overweight.
That is probably because Lithuania has fewer fast-food restaurants and its teens have less money to buy snacks and fast food, Overpeck said.
In some countries, such as Ireland, Portugal and Sweden, 13-year-old girls were more likely than 15-year-old girls to be obese.
Among French 15-year-olds, 4 percent of girls and almost 3 percent of boys were obese, and nearly 13 percent of girls and 10 percent of boys were overweight. Among German 15-year-olds, about 5 percent of girls and boys were obese, and nearly 15 percent of girls and 14 percent of boys were overweight.
The other countries studied were Austria, Czech Republic, Flemish Belgium, Finland and Slovenia.
Overpeck said preliminary data from more recent surveys show little if any change in rates among the countries studied.
The World Health Organization last year said obesity is no longer mostly an American problem but is an increasing concern in Europe and other developed nations because people are abandoning traditional dietary habits and adopting more sedentary lifestyles.
Weight calculations were based on teens’ body-mass index, a height-weight ratio.
Countries with some of the heaviest youngsters after the United States, based on data from 15-year-olds, were:
-Greece: 5.5 percent of girls were obese and about 16 percent were overweight; nearly 11 percent of boys were obese and almost 29 percent were overweight.
-Portugal: nearly 7 percent of girls were obese and almost 21 percent were overweight; about 5 percent of boys were obese and 14 percent were overweight.
-Israel: about 6 percent of girls were obese and 16 percent were overweight; nearly 7 percent of boys were obese and 20 percent were overweight;
-Ireland: nearly 5 percent of girls were overweight and 14 percent were overweight; almost 3 percent of boys were obese and 19 percent were overweight.
-Denmark: 6.5 percent of girls were obese and 18 percent were overweight; about 3 percent of boys were obese and 10 percent were overweight.
nothing about Vietnam, Thailand, Kenya, Ethiopia? darn…
whatever happens in the US usually follows in Europe a few years later…give euro kids some time, they’ll get fat too.
It’s already happening in S. Korea. They have a South Korean version of “Supersize Me,” made by an activist down there. Obesity has skyrocketed something 400% in the past couple years, about the same rate at which American fast food has skyrocketed. Krispy Kreme is also popular over there now.
Smitty, where is the comparision you mention? I can’t see an link, embedded or otherwise.
JK. I copeied the referenced link onto the page for easier reading and connect to.
Smitty
Sorry, I read the first 10 posts or so and couldn’t see the referenced article, got it now.
Thanks,
Oh OK…I do that to.
Smitty