Dave Frightens Me wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 16:11:48 +0000,
> this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of
> the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote:
>
> >Dave Frightens Me wrote:
> >
> >[]
> >> Kids in Italy don't like to walk, but damn, they are rarely too fat
> >> either.
> >
> >That's actually a load of bollocks. Italy has one of the highest
> >childhood obesity rates in the world.
>
> Statistics are also a load of bollocks, as you know.
Yes, statistics can be confusing and misused, but there's quite a lot of
data on this.
> And which ones were you thinking of anyway?
The ones which show that it has a problem with childhood obesity.
They're easy enough to find. You'll find studies which point to the
problem being worse in the south than in the north, the trend over the
last 40 years etc.
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