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Okay, this is weird for me to say this, but in one sense, the French really are less than Americans--in body mass.

I hate to get on a rant on about France or a rant on about obeisity, but I just had to read some articles for a college class and they were about obeisity. The article talked about how French people are notoriously lean. It's funny too, because my mom's side of the family, the side I take after physically, is the side of the family I get my French-ness from...and I'm tall and skinny, just like my mom, and her entire family...

We get it!! WE'RE FAT!!! I'm a 400 lb man with a cathador. It's just simply not true of ALL the citizens. Yes I do realize by statistics we are the fattest nation, but it's like beating a dead horse.

We're not fat...just big-boned!

Don't you mean Freedom<America?

</cheesy joke>

have you ever been to france lately? or america for that matter...
I can assure you that there areskinny americans *gasp* I have seen them with my own eyes!
...and the french apparently have more and more problems with obesity as well...or so it says in their newspapers... and I always believe what they put in the newspapers ;)

All western nations are fat.

Do I sense this is topic being a bit egotistical????

Anyways, AUstralia unfortunately is being tagged as obese and is actually quite an important issue among many about what we can do to fix it.

Well, I invented a diet myself. I guarantee a 100% success rate. I'll share it with everyone here, but I tell you in confidence OK? It's going to make me rich.

Stop Eating.

All western nations are fat.
western as in europe? america? africa? west from where? ;)

western as in europe? america? africa? west from where? ;)


The western hemisphere. Everyone in the Americas, western Europe, western africa, half of britian, iceland and greenland a fatasses. Luckily being from NZ, I'm on the other side of the date line and therefore the perfect weight.

I'm a skinny American, but not for a lack of trying. One day I hope to be a fat Frenchman.

western as in europe? america? africa? west from where? ;)

Western nations as in post industrial capitalist societies. Happy? :p

Western nations as in post industrial capitalist societies. Happy? :p
oooh, you mean the fast food nations...
:D

oooh, you mean the fast food nations...
:D

yeh the McFat countries

i hear Australia is pretty fat too, but there dont seem to be many obese people around, take me for example im completely scrawny (50kg) but then thats cause i dont eat McCrap and the likes

i swear, in one hundred years i rekon the major companies will have more power than the governments

go Australia, we rule

It's excersise.

Not overeating (well some people maybe).

People get up, sit in a car, sit in an office, sit in a lunch room, sit in an office and then sit in a car followed by sitting infront of a TV at night.

If everyone - like myself - went for a walk, jog or excersise somewhere between all the sitting they would loose lbs (kgs) in no time!

I just came back from jogging. Feels great. Everyone who does not do it: try it! It really clears up your head too

I just came back from jogging. Feels great. Everyone who does not do it: try it! It really clears up your head too


Saying what I just said - I am staying in this lunchtime as it is really raining outside!!

But then I have been working outside all morning to make up for it!

And yes I feel more healthy as a result :)

I was backing you up dude

I was backing you up dude

I was double backing you up too.

dude! I haven't been a dude for months - well since I last came on here anyway!!

I won't deny that there are a lot of fat Americans, I know quite a few myself, but I think that in some cases the French are unusually skinny. Now, I make my observations based on the summer Olympics, just to clear that part up. If you take, for example, the French girls gymnasts and put them right beside an American girls gymnast the French girl would probably look slimmer. Even though the American gymnast probably isn't fat at all. Because when I was watching the Olympics, most noticable in gymnastics because of the uniforms, the French seem just naturally slimmer, with a different bone structure. Whereas the American gymnasts were blockier and more muscular. It is the same with those tiny, skinny, Asian gymnasts. They have a different body structure.

I won't deny that there are a lot of fat Americans, I know quite a few myself, but I think that in some cases the French are unusually skinny. Now, I make my observations based on the summer Olympics, just to clear that part up. If you take, for example, the French girls gymnasts and put them right beside an American girls gymnast the French girl would probably look slimmer. Even though the American gymnast probably isn't fat at all. Because when I was watching the Olympics, most noticable in gymnastics because of the uniforms, the French seem just naturally slimmer, with a different bone structure. Whereas the American gymnasts were blockier and more muscular. It is the same with those tiny, skinny, Asian gymnasts. They have a different body structure.

And then theres female East European weightlifters...

:/

1) I am American...with French ethnicity and French background. (Yes, I've seen skinny Americans, I am one...but I'm also French...)

2) America is not the fattest nation.

3) France is leaner than America. I'm not saying that there aren't fat French and I'm not saying there aren't skinny Americans. I'm saying that the average French is more slender than the average American.

We're not fat...just big-boned!
Thats what you get from fudgepacking.

Okay, this is weird for me to say this, but in one sense, the French really are less than Americans--in body mass.

Only 9% of them have a weight problem - and I don't think our country's physed programs are doing anything else to curtail our massive weight problem

Only 9% of them have a weight problem - and I don't think our country's physed programs are doing anything else to curtail our massive weight problem
Yea, and something like 59% of American adults between the ages of 21 and 55 are medically obeise. I believe at least 5% are morbidly obeise (which means life threatening obeisity). I'm not too sure about the second percentage though.

All western nations are fat.

Actually I thought the Italians were rather fit.

Actually I thought the Italians were rather fit.
Italian gurlz pretty! and fit! (especially one or two in my classes!) :D

(forgive the above adolescent outburst of this teenage boy)

Ya, the Italians are pretty fit seeing how they do a lot more walking to get from place to place than we Americans (who are lazy and just drive) - plus their meal portions aren't as outrageously huge and unhealthy

Better looking than the Freedom anyway

Well, I invented a diet myself. I guarantee a 100% success rate. I'll share it with everyone here, but I tell you in confidence OK? It's going to make me rich.

Stop Eating.


oh please. why dont you go drink some cynide, it'll be less painful and faster.

oh please. why dont you go drink some cynide, it'll be less painful and faster.
eh? Why don't you go drink some liquid grammar and spelling lessons? It'll be less painful for me.

When I was in Germany this summer (for 2 weeks), I didn't see a single obese person. Not one. IMO, it's because of 2 reasons: diet and exercise (imagine that! :p ) The food that is generally eaten is much healthier, and they walk around much more. It's as easy as that....stop eating junk food and walk instead of driving sometimes.

Well, I invented a diet myself. I guarantee a 100% success rate. I'll share it with everyone here, but I tell you in confidence OK? It's going to make me rich.

Stop Eating.

How about "CONSUME FEWER CALORIES THAN YOU BURN"?

When I was in Germany this summer (for 2 weeks), I didn't see a single obese person. Not one.
Or maybe they were just on vacation.

How about "CONSUME FEWER CALORIES THAN YOU BURN"?

For some people, consuming fewer than burning means almost not eating at all. ;)

Burn as much as you consume or more if you want to actually loose weight. Eat healthier also. It's not necessarily the quantity that matters, but the quality. There is not much food in a Big Mac meal (not that big of a meal I mean), but most of it is junk.

In Canada, well at least in Quebec, people tend to excuse themselves for eating more rich (read richer in fat) meals because of the winter. However, with today's technology and way of life, winter is not really different from any season since we, not like a century or so ago, do NOT have to ACTUALLY bear the winter temperatures.

Well, I invented a diet myself. I guarantee a 100% success rate. I'll share it with everyone here, but I tell you in confidence OK? It's going to make me rich.

Stop Eating.

Anorexia Nervosa will, indeed, cure obesity... unfortunately, it's a deadly disease. How about decrease caloric intake and increase activity... that always works too.

Anorexia Nervosa will, indeed, cure obesity... unfortunately, it's a deadly disease. How about decrease caloric intake and increase activity... that always works too.

Increase activity? Bah.

Mine is better. You don't actually have to do anything at all. Literally.

(You aren't taking me seriously, are you? :p)

I lost 135 lbs in 5 minutes...


I got a divorce.