individual,

What has "who's given most" got to do with overweight sedentary Westerners.

It's about lifestyle and technological innovation and wealth. We don't move enough. We eat too much. And our lazy fast food culture guarantees that a sizable portion of the population will be overweight, if not obese.

What has "who's given most" got to do with overweight sedentary Westerners.
Poirot,
Westerners earn reasonably well hence they can afford feeding themselves into oblivion. Show me a rich Oriental who pays fair wages. Show me an obese oriental working class.
Yes westerners are quite stuffed & I have been saying this for 40 years. At least they're not stuffed from lack of nourishment due their dictatorial hierarchies. Why else do so many easterners strive to come here ? Not because they can stay super slim, that's for sure.

"Stuff themselves into oblivion"....how apt....how human!

It's no use discussing non-Western dictatorial hierarchies, because it's outside the subject at hand.

It's about lifestyle and technological innovation and wealth.
Poirot,
Add to that moron academic interference.

>>It's about lifestyle and technological innovation and wealth.<<

>>Add to that moron academic interference.<<

No it isn't. It it is not about the Government or academia or affluence or the machines or the media or society. It is about personal choice. I could go on at length but as a wise man once said: a youtube video speaks a thousand words.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4YZiKbklAE

Cheers,

Tony

As a teenager I suffered from anorexia and I think that Perth's obsession with models via the West Australian newspaper is far more offensive and damaging than the obesity campaign. The West Australian regularly celebrates the latest 'WA modelling discovery' and places thin young girls on a pedestal. This glorification of female appearance is what should be attacked.