🚀 go-pugleaf

Aardvark wrote:
>>>>> Didn't see any morbidly obese Americans there.
>>>> They're all in Liverpool.
>>> I've never seen a morbidly obese American in Liverpool. Have you? I
>>> think you may be mistaken.
>> No, only morbidly obese British there.
> 
> "The prevalence of morbid obesity is increasing in the UK. Recent UK 
> government statistics suggest that 20% of adults are obese and 1% 
> morbidly obese"
> http://ceaccp.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/extract/8/5/151
> 
> "The United States has the highest rates of obesity in the developed 
> world.[99] From 1980 to 2002, obesity rates have doubled reaching the 
> current rate of 32% of the adults population.[105] Rate of obesity vary 
> by ethnicity and gender. In the USA 28% of men and 34% of women are obese 
> with rates rising to as high as 50% among African American women. [106]
> The prevalence of class 3 obesity (BMI ≥40) has increased the most 
> dramatically from 0.78 percent in 1990 to 2.2 percent in 2000."
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity
> 
> Liverpool, Merseyside had a population of 439473 according to the 2001 
> census (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/profiles/00by.asp). That 
> means there are around 4.5 thousand inhabitants of the area classified as 
> morbidly obese, of whom I must admit I have seen quite a few over the 
> years although not on a daily basis. If I were to switch on my television 
> set and look at one of these US- made Jerry Springer type shows how many 
> morbidly obese Americans do I see?
> 
> BTW I am neither a Liverpudlian nor a Scouser nor even British. Nor do I 
> live in the city of Liverpool, nor even in the county of Merseyside. So 
> basically I don't really give a shit.
> 
> FYI
> HTH
> HAND
> FOAD   

If you "don't really give a shit" about it, then why are you crying so 
much over it?