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- February 23, 2007
Australians scale new heights in obesity
Actually, I don’t think that is the best metaphor for something like obesity. Shouldn’t it be more like Australians stretch for new breadths (or circumferences) in obesity?
According to a list issued by the Forbes organisation, Australia ranks 21st fattest country, 70% of people being regarded as overweight or obese. We aren’t as big a bunch of fatties as Americans, who came 9th, with 74%, but we’re fatter than the Poms, 28th, 64%. The gold goes to Nauru, in the South Pacific, with 94% of its population being fatsos.
There are 1.6 billion overweight adults in the world, according to WHO.
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3 Responses to “Australians scale new heights in obesity”
I am surprised we Americans weren’t number one. It’s too much junk food and no exercise. Also the additives and toxic substances that humans were not meant to put into their bodies. I think Americans are not only fat but lazy! I saw a pic of a guy in his truck driving beside his dog to walk him. That is ridiculous!
By Titania Starlight on Feb 23, 2007
You haven’t come ’round Oz, then, Titania. As a yank living in the ACT, I can honestly say that I see about as many fatnormous people here as I used to back home. There’s an interesting divide that I see here: the Australians who are fit are fit, and the rest are chub-a-lubs. Give the country a few years at the rate it’s going, though, and Australia will be ranked right up there with the US.
By Anonymous on Feb 27, 2007
I’m up there with my BMI of 40+.
By Mikey_Capital on Mar 5, 2007