In rec.travel.usa-canada Alohacyberian wrote:
> "Craig Welch" wrote in message
> news:Sy1Hi.1328$9r.367@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > Real BBW wrote:
> >
> >> The government should force airlines to make seats that fit all people,
> >> including those who are fat or tall, without extra cost to the
> >> consumer. Fat and height are immutable features of being human.
> >
> > Height, certainly.
> >
> > Fat, certainly not. Why, for example, are people of the same racial mix as
> > North Americans but who do not live in the US, not so fat?
> >
> Uh, they don't eat too much? KM
Just thought I'd interject with a myth-dispelling article I picked up a couple
of years ago and kept.
snip
"Mar 16, 2005 2:19 PM EST
Obesity higher in some European countries
By JENNA PAYNE
Associated Press Writer
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- At least seven European countries now challenge the
United States in size - at least around the waistline. In a group of nations
from Greece to Germany, the proportion of overweight or obese men is higher
than in the U.S., experts said Tuesday in a major analysis of expanding girth
on the European continent.
"The time when obesity was thought to be a problem on the other side of the
Atlantic has gone by," said Mars Di Bartolomeo, Luxembourg's Minister of
Health.
In Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Malta and Slovakia, a
higher percentage of men are obese or overweight than the estimated 67 percent
of men in the United States, according to a report from the International
Obesity Task Force, a coalition of researchers and institutions.
The analysis was released as the 25-nation European Union announced an
initiative to enlist the food and marketing industries in the fight against
fat.
Obesity is especially acute in Mediterranean countries, underscoring concerns
that people in the southern region are turning away from the traditional diet
of fish, fruits and vegetables to fast food high in fat and refined
carbohydrates.
In Greece, for example, 38 percent of women are obese, compared with 34
percent in the United States, the group said."
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Sometimes myths become .. myths. Nex |