Comment on Anon travels overseas

AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can’t speak for all of Europe, but I was in Germany for a couple weeks and I saw just as many fat people there that I see at home in America.

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  • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    according to wikipedia the united states are 42.9% obese and germany 24.2%, what may instead be happening is either not being accurate in your headcount or that in germany obese people go outside more than in america or that maybe obesity is distributed differently, potentially similarly in both countries but you were only for example in rural areas in america but only in urban areas in germany

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    • Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or perhaps they were in a touristic area which had lots of Americans.

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    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Check the actual calculation. In a study I saw about the most obese cities, the calculation was number of restaurants per square mile. So nothing to do with actual obesity.

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      • Pringles@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Restaurants per square mile? That’s an obscenely stupid metric for measuring obesity.

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• moonburster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The trend for obesitas in Europe has been steadily climbing. I read that in the Netherlands the adults have over 50% overweight

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  • plyth@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    overweight is not obese

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    • moonburster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And yet both are true if you look at the numbers

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    • ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Splitting hairs. Yall are fat now too

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