However, 6 of the top 7 fattest countries are english speaking.
Not really surprising when I look around at my coworkers.
Totally comes from left field.
And the fattest speaks Spanish! OMG!!!!
The Sun headline would be 'SPEAKING ENGLISH MAKES PEOPLE FAT'
I think we will lay off the butter and fat milk...
What about Fiji or Tonga???
It's not the whole world in this survey. Just OECD countries.
Think of Italian food and you think copious amounts of pasta, pizza, meals lasting for hours. Think of French food and its heavy sauces, bread, pate and wine. Think of Swiss food and its rösti, würst, chocolate and a Sprüngli on every other street corner. Yet all these countries have low incidences of obesity. There really must be a closet bulimia problem in these countries or the amount of junk in the average anglo-saxon diet must be off the scale.
Eta not forgetting Swiss cheese and other dairy products!
Or they just don't stuff themselves to bursting then squeeze in a kebab like the anglo-saxons do. The Swiss seem to be able to enjoy food without going at it like earth-moving equipment.
It's not the food, it's the culture. McDonald's is widely blamed for obesity and perhaps correctly so, but in fact it has little to do with the food. A Big Mac for example isn't worse for you than a gourmet burger, but it's cheaper, quicker and more accessible. You don't need to sit down with friends and family to dine, you can grab one and eat in the car in secret. You can't do that with a Rosti!
and they possibly do a lot more sport, gardening, walking, etc.
Maybe countries which don't have much in the way of tasty food have an advantage?
It's the sort of tasty food. I'd rather eat Korean and Japanese than any of the other food cultures on that list, but it's not instant gratification like Mexican food or American food.
Like the French and the Italians?
It's a mixture of portion size and culture.
That's cos all the fit birds don't stay in english speaking countries... they're appreciated a lot more in the non english speaking countries...
I'm glad you finally agree
But in no way intrinsically unhealthy. And you can't blame a company for producing a product that's tasty, cheap and accessible.
Problem is obesity is a real killer - almost as bad as smoking. Vascular, heart problems, diabetes- the list is endless.
People smoke like chimneys here and in France, are thin, too. I wonder if that is related. I know that most smokers I know kill apetite with the cigs. While I think people generaly move a lot more, it's an active lifestyle, there might also be the correlation with coffee/cigs/little portions and being thin? While thin does not mean healthy, a high percentage of obese people certainly means pretty unhealthy.
I think it's all about the telly. People who live in countries with crap telly (Switzerland, Italy) and downright bloody weird telly (Japan) do other things with their time, like shooting at foreigners, bribing prostitutes and eating sushi off naked young ladies.
People who live in countries with good telly (the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia) and amusing telly (Mexico) stay at home with a bag of Doritoes and a case of beer, and then get fat.
Ban telly, and everyone will lose weight. Nobody was fat in the fifties, after all, and they used to eat lard for breakfast.
I don't know why they don't employ me as an expert, you know...