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Plenty of fat ones there and they all smoke like chimneys. Ironically the American ciggies are their favorite.
your not kidding, in the mid 70's we visited our relatives in the former yugoslavia, even though I was just 15 my relatives were surprised I wasnt smoking!!!!
This is true, but we're catching up fast. I returned from holiday in Tunisia a few weeks ago, and I would say most Brits are overweight, not all, but most. This included the young ones which I found quite shocking. When I was a young man in the 70s, most young people were very slim.
On this holiday I noticed the Germans are quite heavy also, but the French mainly slim. Almost all the Tunisian young people were slim.
We're off to Greece in a few days, and on previous visits I have noticed many of their young people are overweight. This wasn't the case when we first visited that country 25 years ago. So America isn't on it's own with weight problems.
Yes, it is a global problem, more advanced in some places than in others. I too have noticed changes in Europe and in Asia over the past 30+ years.
When I first arrived in Asia (East Asia) in the mid 1980s almost nobody was even a bit heavy. East Asians are still far thinner than Americans, but, even they have got fatter over the years, and it is most noticeable in the children today.
I was in Spain and The Netherlands this past June and most people there were reasonably fit. But, I did notice some young women wearing clothes that may have been a bit too tight for them (IMO).
The first thing I notice, though, on trips back to the US, is just how large many Americans are. Going from East Asia to the US is an eye-opening experience in terms of different body shapes and sizes!
Perhaps we should all be studying the French diet and lifestyle!
When I was a kid, it was dinner eaten, then out to play for a while with friends. Running everywhere. At the same time our diet was high in fat. Plenty of french fries and meat puddings, fried fish, meat pies........ the list goes on. But, we were skinny kids.
I'm in my mid 50s. When I look at my old school class photos, most kids were skinny and maybe there would be one fat kid in the class. Now, it seems as if the skinny kids are the odd ones out!
Most East Asians are terrified of getting fat, while back in the US we have people advocating acceptance of fat bodies and nonsense assertions that fat people are generally fit and healthy.
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Most people are unaware that the increase in obesity is in fact a global problem.
Obesity, and its complications, are a cash cow for the big pharamceutical companies. They work in conjunction with food providers to concoct appetite-increasing chemicals that are put into grain feeds for cattle, and into dna of seeds for crops.
A healthy, well-educated population makes ZERO money for corporations like Con-Agra, Monsanto, Astra-Zeneca, or Pfizer.
Obesity, and its complications, are a cash cow for the big pharamceutical companies. They work in conjunction with food providers to concoct appetite-increasing chemicals that are put into grain feeds for cattle, and into dna of seeds for crops.
A healthy, well-educated population makes ZERO money for corporations like Con-Agra, Monsanto, Astra-Zeneca, or Pfizer.
This is why Europe is anti-GMO.
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