U.S.A no longer #1
I’m not quite sure if I’m happy or disappointed with this. After all “America #1″ is shouted by every redneck out there… America you say Billy Bob? Not sure what Mexico is #1 in for. However I do suspect that Canada in number 1 in exporting timber or pulp maybe. Does that also include south America? I will never figure it out. All I know is that U.S.A lost the number one spot.
SMH.com quote:
Australia pips US as world’s fattest nation
June 20, 2008AUSTRALIA 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.”
AAP
It’s quite sad, I mean how are we suppose to muscle around the world now if we can’t carry the weight. on the lighter note Australians are still our allie, that is until we piss them off somehow. Kinnda weird, that the Hard Working Resident of U.S. got beat by some son of a convict.
To be honest i really though we had this category on the lock down. It’s a fact that our Army is no longer #1, as they are going sloppy. (Yes, it’s a fact… don’t argue… not my fault that deep south didn’t get a memo on this one… OK we may still have the #1 spot in the citizen militia category).I do think however that soon we may be taking over the lead in the Education category, for cranking out the dumbest people to walk the earth, and spending billions of dollars doing that… to think about it that should be two categories in itself out there… not sure what the second one would be.
So people, pick up the slack!! Gyms are just there to take your money! Who ever heard of paying to sweat and work, it should be the other way around. Skip the gym and super size it. Where else in the world would you be able to get a tasty burger for a dollar? What an you get for a dollar now? Nothing… well the delicious McChicken or a Double Cheesburger… thats two meats!!
There is still hope, from the article it seems that it was just few crappy studies, perhaps they just got it wrong… lets hope.
Lets show the world what we are all about! Super Size
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