USA Vs. AUS
Gabbylou22
Posts: 43 Member
I'm an american, in australia, and I get "Why aren't you fat" or "when I think of america I think of fat people", Australia's actually been 'fatter' than america sense about 2001- but there you go.
"Australia pips US as world's fattest nation
June 20, 2008
AUSTRALIA has overtaken the United States as the world's most obese nation, a new report says.
The report, Australia's Future Fat Bomb, says 26 per cent of adult Australians - almost 4 million people - are now obese, 1 million more than the last calculation in 1999.
The findings mean Australia is the world's most overweight nation, ahead of the notoriously super-sized Americans, who have a 25 per cent obesity rate.
"That, unfortunately, makes us the heavyweight champions, a title we don't really want," said Professor Simon Stewart, the author of the report and head of preventive cardiology at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne.
The report says that 9 million adults have a body mass index over 25, making them overweight or obese, an increase from 7 million. Experts have called for obese people to be given gym discounts and for surgical waiting lists to be prioritised on the basis of weight loss.
The report presents the results of height and weight checks on 14,000 adult Australians nationwide in 2005, giving the most thorough picture of obesity since the AusDiab study in 1999.
The data suggests there will be an extra 700,000 heart-related hospital admissions in the next 20 years due to obesity. Almost 125,000 people will die as a result.
"I would regard this as the biggest threat to our future health," Professor Stewart said.
"As we send our athletes off to the Olympics, let's reflect on the fact that we would win the gold medal now in the world fat Olympics if there was such a thing.
"The health care system is going to be overwhelmed by weight-related hospitalisations from knee replacements through to heart attacks and strokes."
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/australia-pips-us-as-worlds-fattest-nation-20090407-9xne.html#ixzz1VEzRsAUk"
"Australia pips US as world's fattest nation
June 20, 2008
AUSTRALIA has overtaken the United States as the world's most obese nation, a new report says.
The report, Australia's Future Fat Bomb, says 26 per cent of adult Australians - almost 4 million people - are now obese, 1 million more than the last calculation in 1999.
The findings mean Australia is the world's most overweight nation, ahead of the notoriously super-sized Americans, who have a 25 per cent obesity rate.
"That, unfortunately, makes us the heavyweight champions, a title we don't really want," said Professor Simon Stewart, the author of the report and head of preventive cardiology at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne.
The report says that 9 million adults have a body mass index over 25, making them overweight or obese, an increase from 7 million. Experts have called for obese people to be given gym discounts and for surgical waiting lists to be prioritised on the basis of weight loss.
The report presents the results of height and weight checks on 14,000 adult Australians nationwide in 2005, giving the most thorough picture of obesity since the AusDiab study in 1999.
The data suggests there will be an extra 700,000 heart-related hospital admissions in the next 20 years due to obesity. Almost 125,000 people will die as a result.
"I would regard this as the biggest threat to our future health," Professor Stewart said.
"As we send our athletes off to the Olympics, let's reflect on the fact that we would win the gold medal now in the world fat Olympics if there was such a thing.
"The health care system is going to be overwhelmed by weight-related hospitalisations from knee replacements through to heart attacks and strokes."
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/australia-pips-us-as-worlds-fattest-nation-20090407-9xne.html#ixzz1VEzRsAUk"
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With that title I thought we were talking about a soccer match!
Well at least it's not just our credit rating that has slipped. For once it's good to be in second place. But last place would be better!0 -
With that title I thought we were talking about a soccer match!
Well at least it's not just our credit rating that has slipped. For once it's good to be in second place. But last place would be better!
Haha, small steps0 -
Hm, I am your opposite, an Australian in the US, and in Houston, so in one of the fatter cities in the US. I was struck when I first arrived in the US not so much by the number of obese people (about the same, in my estimation), but by the larger number of people who were morbidly and super-mobidly obese, which from what I can gather is a much more extensive issue in the US that currently in Australia, although we seem to be rapidly catching up. The number of obese children seems higher in the US, too, although that might not be the case in all areas.
But neither of our nations are doing particularly well on the overweight/obese front, are we?0 -
No we really aren't, but the amount of fat kids (to use the nicest language, obviously) around here is disgusting! And it's not even always that the parents are that large, the kids just whine and so the parents let them have what they want! It's horrible! Either as a parent grow a spine, or don't have kids in the first place- they'll just end up clogging the public health system when they have heart problems at 16.0
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Remember when people worried about parts of the world not getting enough food?
Now that only happens when dictators deny people things.0
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