QUOTE (Mariposa @ May 14 2008, 1:16 pm)

bandida, I did not know you had to be perfect to criticize others. It does not make you a hypocrite as long as you do not claim to be perfect.
Obesity is a problem in many countries of the world, the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and Germany as well (and others). Are only thin people allowed to point that out?
The kind of 'criticism' I'm referring to is not pointing out the increasing obesity rates in western countries, because that's not what it usually is, but self-righteous, general, stereotyping paired with insults of the populations of other countries.
All I did was state my observations - I can't change what I saw and what I'm seeing here at home. Maybe all our obese people live out west and that's why I don't see them? And maybe all obese Germans congregated in NRW? Who knows? Besides, many of these statistics are flawed anyways, since most rely on self-reporting.