Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Chris Doss wrote:
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> >In all fairness, I know some Germans who are hippo-like in their girth.
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> I've only been in Bremen, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, and Munich, but I
> never saw anything like U.S. levels of girth. With all that pork and
> potatoes and beer they consume in Munich, I was amazed by their
> trimness.
>
Speculation on this seems idle. I read someplace some years ago that the core source of overweight in the u.s. in recent decades was lack of exercise rather than overeating. Could someone locate some reasonably respectable research on the topic?
Overweight as a result of poverty has been a subject of comment for a long time.
Carrol