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10-24-2010, 07:19 PM
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10-24-2010, 08:25 PM
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Edit: I see we're #3 with 66.7% of the population overweight. We got beat by tiny Kiribati (#2) and American Samoa (#1).
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10-24-2010, 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by hbarcat  I wonder where the U.S. is in the list. | 3!
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10-24-2010, 08:38 PM
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10-24-2010, 08:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: tulsa oklahoma | | how is it that one of the unincorporated territories of the US gets to be its own country for the sake of the video?
on the other side of that technicality the US is 1 & 3 
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10-24-2010, 08:43 PM
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10-24-2010, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Kwesi How are the top two... islands? I don't know if my reasoning makes any sense but I figure on an island with limited technological convenience the population would be slimmer. |
All they have to do is sit around in hammocks by the beach all day eating lobster and drinking margaritas.
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10-24-2010, 08:46 PM
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10-24-2010, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Kwesi How are the top two... islands? I don't know if my reasoning makes any sense but I figure on an island with limited technological convenience the population would be slimmer. | Apparently, they have all of the technological conveniences necessary to promote obesity. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19588607
"... Before the end of the century, imported white rice had replaced plantation crops as the chief source of carbohydrate. In September 2000 the first fast food franchise opened in American Samoa with enthusiastic fanfare. By 2008 six nationally known fast food restaurants were catering to a population of over 57,794 (July 2006 est.). With more meals eaten at fast-food restaurants, fewer families tending plantations or gardens as their main source of food and regular exercise, and a greater reliance on video games and television to occupy children because of both parents working outside the home..." |
10-24-2010, 08:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia | | | Id like to see their methodology. Samoans are quite big, so if they just estimate obesity based on BMI then its a little flawed. |
10-24-2010, 08:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Columbus, Ohio | | | The most prosperous countries are usually the fattest countries, IMO. American Samoa just has it in their genes though. That's where we get all our NFL defensive linemen.
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10-24-2010, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound Woo! Canada isn't on the list. Croatia and a few others really surprised me.
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10-24-2010, 08:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | | Kiribati and American Samoa just have big people. As Capsandwich noted, a whole lot of NFL players come out of Samoa. Polynesians also turn out a bunch of Rugby players and Sumo wrestlers too.
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10-24-2010, 08:59 PM
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10-24-2010, 08:59 PM
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I don't see anywhere where the sources are cited. |
10-24-2010, 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese Kiribati and American Samoa just have big people. As Capsandwich noted, a whole lot of NFL players come out of Samoa. Polynesians also turn out a bunch of Rugby players and Sumo wrestlers too. | Sometimes it's genes. Other times, it's culture. No condemnation on either end. Everyone's got to eat and everyone's got to die. How much they eat compared to how they die all depends on where they're from.
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10-24-2010, 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Joel_bass | I had one for lunch. I am not fat by any means (160lbs and 9% body fat). I just had to try it, it was gross.
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10-24-2010, 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by line6man Where are these statistics coming from? | Somebody's ***.
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10-24-2010, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese Kiribati and American Samoa just have big people. As Capsandwich noted, a whole lot of NFL players come out of Samoa. Polynesians also turn out a bunch of Rugby players and Sumo wrestlers too. | It's possible that Samoa has big people and an obesity epidemic. Here is one snippet that I came across: http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=37550
Now, I am somewhat suspicious about conclusions drawn from "leading causes of death," and I'd want to see more data than just one quote from one doctor.
At the same time, I wonder if it's the same in the US, that a whole lot of NFL players come out of communities that also have higher rates of obesity and obesity related disease. |
10-24-2010, 11:39 PM
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