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Kadaitcha Man wrote:
> 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?



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