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Brits are fat

Post by Gallstones » Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:06 am

2 out of 3!

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/04/2_out_o ... _or_obese/
LONDON (AP) — More than 60 percent of adults in England are overweight or obese, according to new figures by the national public health agency.

The figures were released Tuesday. Experts have previously predicted England’s increasing obesity epidemic could mean half its population will be obese by 2030.
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Post by JimC » Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:34 am

That's why they lost the cricket...
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Post by Svartalf » Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:41 am

They are not the only ones, I'm sadly overweight too...
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Re: Brits are fat

Post by FBM » Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:53 am

When I first came to Korea in '96 I practically never saw even a very plump person. Nowadays, it's not rare at all. That roughly equates with the time when Pizza Hut, McD's, etc, (read: shit food) started gaining a toehold over here.
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Post by Hermit » Wed Feb 05, 2014 9:50 am

Anything the Brits can do, the US can do better by far.

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Post by JimC » Wed Feb 05, 2014 10:22 am

We beat the kiwis! :yes:
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Re: Brits are fat

Post by rainbow » Wed Feb 05, 2014 11:53 am

It is a great sadness to us Africans that we get very few plump British missonaries these days.
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Post by FBM » Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:07 pm

Hermit wrote:Anything the Brits can do, the US can do better by far.

By Thor, I'm living in the right country, then. :dance: Now if only these stats applied to me personally. :sadcheer:
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:10 pm

The US are number one (USA! USA!) but I reckon we can take those Mexicans....
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Post by Seabass » Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:25 pm

The Mexicans passed us last year. Looks like you limeys are nipping at our chubby little heels.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:45 pm

Seabass wrote:The Mexicans passed us last year. Looks like you limeys are nipping at our chubby little heels.
It's a slow race with lots of huffing and puffing....
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Post by mistermack » Wed Feb 05, 2014 5:22 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:
Seabass wrote:The Mexicans passed us last year. Looks like you limeys are nipping at our chubby little heels.
It's a slow race with lots of huffing and puffing....
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Re: Brits are fat

Post by Audley Strange » Wed Feb 05, 2014 5:49 pm

England is not Britain. If one were to add the obesity levels of the Welsh and Especially the Scottish and Northern Irish, it would probably be higher since many places in England are practically famine zones. :{D
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Post by Blind groper » Wed Feb 05, 2014 6:43 pm

Believe it or not, but the USA has passed its peak, and the percentage of obese is now going down, albeit slowly. The rest of us might yet catch up.

We here in NZ have a major advantage. We have more polynesians than anywhere else in the world! Those guys have always loved their food, whether missionary or McDonalds.
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Re: Brits are fat

Post by MrJonno » Wed Feb 05, 2014 7:58 pm

UK is 2nd in the western world for teenage pregnancies hoorah Not hard to guess who is first, a clue is they are big on teaching abstinence
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