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   So what you're saying...

   

   Anonymous Coward, May 29th, 2002 @ 11:36am

   
   

   is that it's your fault I'm fat? HOW COULD YOU! :)

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   technology does not equal lazyness

   

   pasi, May 30th, 2002 @ 3:53am

   
   

   If american fatness is due to technology and standard of living, it would follow suite that other equally developped nations would be suffering from the same problem. This however is not the case. I have no knowlage of studies prefomed on this subject, but I have been to tens of countries, many which have a higher standard of living then the u.s. (maybe not a higher turnover, but more equally distributed) and it would seem to me that fatness goes hand in hand with culture, not technology.
   
   By default the third world nations where size equals success have a higher prosentage of fatness. Other countries where fatness is considered a minus, people are slim, even if they are a part of the local elite, with large incomes and servants, they stay slim.
   
   In europe, where a good standard of living has been enjoyed for a long while, we are proud to be slimmer. When travelling, americans are easy to spot, they have a look like no other. (Not to their advantage...)
   I do belive we europeans also have a high amount of problems with bloodcirculation etc. but not due to fatness, just bad diets.
   
   

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   Anonymous Coward, May 30th, 2002 @ 6:33am

   
   

   Technology contributes but we americans have ourselves to blame as well. Our need to 'supersize' anything we eat while burning less calories just keeps pumping us up til we're supersized ourselves. I think the large portions of food being eaten is unique to the american culture. Fortunately, I'm not one of the masses. Get it ? Masses ?

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   Re: So what you're saying...

   

   dude!, Jan 27th, 2008 @ 2:04pm

   
   

   DON'T BE RETARDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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