Friday on-topic: Info-map on obesity

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

You might think the U.S. is the most obese nation in the world - but if you do, you are wrong.

How fat is YOUR country?



- The Pacific Islands, east of Australia, top the list of countries with the highest percentage of their populations obese.
- Experts have blamed the soaring obesity rates on nations colonising the islands and introducing Western diets.
- British, American and French colonisers tried to 'civilise' the nations' eating habits after the Second World War.
- Their fishing and farming industries died out and the countries became reliant on foreign imports like rice and sugar.
- Scale shows epidemic of fatness, with high levels of obesity across most of Europe, the Middle East and the U.S.

Comments

[peamasii.livejournal.com]

The UK as of late seems to have an awful lot of overweight young people, I've noticed on a few trips there recently. I don't know if it's because of poor diet or the dependence on motorized transport. Practically 4 out of 5 people under 25 seem way chubby.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

I've been watching colleagues and friends of mine constantly keeping all sorts of diets, and still complaining they're not losing weight. In the meantime, I never stop being in motion: biking, walking, running, playing tennis, etc. And I eat almost everything. I've never kept a diet. I've just stopped soda and chips. Nothing else. And I move a lot. That's the key to everything. It doesn't matter so much how many calories you consume, what matters is how many you burn, and how.

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

What you eat still matters. What also matters is how you eat it (http://www.precisionnutrition.com/all-about-slow-eating).

[ponitacupcake.livejournal.com]

What are they eating in Egypt and Saudi Arabia?

[luzribeiro.livejournal.com]

Pork? (Wouldn't the irony be just beautiful?)

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

HA! Your icon! It's killing me!

[luzribeiro.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

[ponitacupcake.livejournal.com]

Would be! Oink!

[popvillain.livejournal.com]

Om nom nom.