Australia is officially the heavyweight champion of the world, according to new figures showing the nation has a greater proportion of obese citizens than the United States. The latest comprehensive obesity study has shown that 26% of adult Australians - almost four million - are now obese, one million more than the last calculation in 1999.
Timmeh
19.Jun.2008 - 11:15 hrs
I guess places such as the Cook Islands, Niue, Fiji, Tonga etc etc don't count as nations?
DrivinWest
19.Jun.2008 - 11:22 hrs
And Britain is the world's #1 arms exporter! We're losing our #1 spot, USA!
thefirelane
19.Jun.2008 - 11:26 hrs
ugh, other countries are so behind the times... sitting around, playing last years hits, typical.
Obesity is soooo 3 years ago, in the US morbid obesity is all the rage!
nice try Australia
DanHessen
19.Jun.2008 - 11:29 hrs
I just had a big, thick deluxe pizza. I'm doing my part as a true patriot.
FacePaint
19.Jun.2008 - 11:33 hrs
You s-ck. I keep forgetting to eat. And when I do order in, it's a bother to actually ingest it.
Um, going to take another stab at this eating thing. Good thing I've got insurance curves built in.
Owain Glyndwr
19.Jun.2008 - 11:43 hrs
And Britain is the world's #1 arms exporter! We're losing our #1 spot, USA!
i think Britain still has a long way to go before the beat the US, Russia, Germany and France to the Number 1 position.
DrivinWest
19.Jun.2008 - 11:44 hrs
i think Britain still has a long way to go before the beat the US, Russia, Germany and France to the Number 1 position.
Britain was the world’s biggest arms seller last year, accounting for a third of global arms exports, the Government’s trade promotion organisation said.
UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) said that arms exporters had added £9.7 billion in new business last year, giving them a larger share of global arms exports than the United States.
cb6dba
19.Jun.2008 - 11:49 hrs
I cannot wait until 90% of people are fat and the governments have to move the goal posts (or just take a bmi index and move the lines over a little) or face having to pay huge amounts of cash for treatment.
When that happens, anyone under the weight of 150kg at height 1m 50cm will be classed as having an eating disorder and made to eat lard with every meal until they get to their ideal weight.
Its only abnormal if everyone else is different, if everyone else is fat then there are only fatties (the new normal), the mega huge (the new fat) and the old normal (the new anorexic) and the old anorexic (the new almost dead - how do they manage to walk)*.
Roll on the flabby rolls of fat and investments in the firms that make those little scooter things the fucking chubby fat people have to use to get around!
*Note, no offence intended with definition used - used for comic affect (get over it, if you are so sensitive what are you doing here :-)
On the topic or exporting arms... Who the fuck gets all the money from this and where does it go? If this is correct, the UK is selling all these weapons to the developing world (thus helping with population control and therefore global warming)*, making a fuck load of cash and still chasrginh a fortune in tax for pertol and VAT.
*Point made in this way to lighten the topic a little
BadDoggie
19.Jun.2008 - 11:51 hrs
Ahem...
The US has not been the Most Obese Nation for some time now. Do try and keep up.
woof.
Matt T
19.Jun.2008 - 12:27 hrs
I cannot wait until 90% of people are fat and the governments have to move the goal posts (or just take a bmi index and move the lines over a little) or face having to pay huge amounts of cash for treatment.
