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Re: What the World Eats

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Post by sedachv » Mon, Jul 05, 2010, 1:31 AM UTC

whyenot wrote: post #15

sedachv wrote: post #6

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They also consume a ridiculous amount of bread (+pasta), dairy and sugary beverages. And probably then wonder why they get fat.

the American, Italian and Mexican families appear to consume equal or greater amounts.

Which is why it's no surprise that the Mexican family is also overweight.

But actually look at the photos of the American and Italian families. The Italians have almost half the food the Germans have, a small fraction of sugar drinks, and very little dairy. They also have one more child in the family. Which is why they look fit.

Re: What the World Eats

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Post by jules » Mon, Jul 05, 2010, 10:34 AM UTC

sedachv wrote: post #30

jules wrote: post #29

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I'm not from the US, and neither are the people we're talking about. These people look like they weigh less than 88 kilograms, which I agree would be obese for 176cm. Are you obese (by your own standards)?

Can you at least bother to look up the definition of the key words before arguing? Obese: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity Overweight: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overweight

Oh I wasn't aware that there were testable definitions. Then I consider it unlikely that the adults in the German family are either obese or overweight. On what are you basing your claim that their BMI is greater than 25 kgm^-2?

Re: What the World Eats

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Post by eru » Mon, Jul 05, 2010, 1:36 PM UTC

jules wrote: post #32

sedachv wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you at least bother to look up the definition of the key words before arguing? Obese: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity Overweight: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overweight

Oh I wasn't aware that there were testable definitions. Then I consider it unlikely that the adults in the German family are either obese or overweight. On what are you basing your claim that their BMI is greater than 25 kgm^-2?

Also BMI is getting phased out in favour of ratio between circumferences of hips and belly. It has much better correlation with lots of diseases than BMI.