Fat(test) countries...

[Futurama]

Supprised that Australia is above the UK, i always though of Australia as a healthy place to live.

Too much lager and too many BBQs I bet :P

 

 

 

Hahah, amen. We all know how those aussies love their beer and BBQ :)

[speedofsound]

I suppose I contribute to overweight America. 13 years old, 5'8, 155 lbs. and thats not because of my height...

 

 

 

It is actually a lot harder to lose weight then people think. Once your overwight it's sometimes hard for you to motivate yourself to keep going on whatever weight lose method your using. Plus your home situatuion and schedule play a big part of it. If your poor mcdonalds might seem like a great place for dinner. It's cheap, fast easy. If your busy, it's essentially the same thing.

 

 

 

What i don't like though is people who hate fat people. So what? I'd rather be a jolly fat guy then a grouchy thin guy anyday.

[Kashi]

 

 

 

Heheh .. heh .. heheheh.

[Mr_Cheese]

oh no! The Aussies are only 21st! better start eating

[rodl]

The reason why people are fat? Because humans will always seek out pleasure, and McDonald's food is pleasurable. Sure, go ahead and say McDonald's food sucks [wagon], we all know you are being hypocritical. :roll:

 

 

 

Losing weight is not easy, losing weight is the exact opposite of eating. If its not pleasurable and you have a weak constitution how long will you last exercising?

 

 

 

 

 

Seriously, think before you post. :wall:

 

 

 

Alright, I guess everyone eats at McDonald's then? I ate it ONCE, about 6 years ago and I threw up, so I say McDonald's food sucks. Go on, call me a hypocrite.

 

 

 

About the second part of your post, I'll be straight to the point.

 

 

 

How the hell are you supposed to even EXPECT to lose weight if you eat junk food all the time?! Stop eating fast food, stop eating after 10 o'clock at night. Go outside, play soccer or engage yourself in some kind of physical activity.

[Giordano]

Ffs...McDonalds is such a joke. The 'Big'Mac I got was served in a small box, I thought it was the fries. Behold! A 4-inch burger! -.-

 

 

 

But not all of those countries are fat due to fast food, like that tropical island. I highly doubt there's too many fast foods there, perhaps genetic.

 

 

 

 

 

Or maybe pineapples there have loads of fat in 'em. o.O

[Kashi]

Ffs...McDonalds is such a joke. The 'Big'Mac I got was served in a small box, I thought it was the fries. Behold! A 4-inch burger! -.-

 

 

 

But not all of those countries are fat due to fast food, like that tropical island. I highly doubt there's too many fast foods there, perhaps genetic.

 

 

 

 

 

Or maybe pineapples there have loads of fat in 'em. o.O

 

 

 

Coconuts have some kind of natural laxative in them, if you ate a bunch of those you'd

 

be under-weight because you'd spend 20 or so hours a day defacating your brains out.

 

 

 

Not sure about pineapples, though. :-k

[Lenin64]

yea! Russia at #92! Way to go, Russia!

 

 

 

And for those who feel losing weight is touhg, I have the perfect solution: Tae-Bo!! I did tae-Bo for a few weeks before I joined the local fitness center, its fun and it works! Not that I was overweight, in fact, my whole life I have been underweight. I have a crazy fast metabolism.

[xXru1n3dXx]

Supprised that Australia is above the UK, i always though of Australia as a healthy place to live.

Too much lager and too many BBQs I bet :P

 

 

 

Hahah, amen. We all know how those aussies love their beer and BBQ :)

 

What can I say, BBQ's are nice. :D

 

 

 

I saw a list like this a couple of months ago as I had to do an assignment on obesity in teens. The results from that list are quite surprising.

[Guest]

What's the fastest thing in the desert?

 

An Ethiopian with a Maccas Voucher!

 

 

 

What's the 2nd fastest thing in the desert?

 

His tribe! :lol:

 

 

 

Haha I always crack up when I hear that joke. :)

 

 

 

Anyway more than 1 in 20 people in Ethiopia are fat! I didn't see that one coming! :lol:

[Sumpta]

Alright, I guess everyone eats at McDonald's then? I ate it ONCE, about 6 years ago and I threw up, so I say McDonald's food sucks. Go on, call me a hypocrite.

 

 

 

Same here. I ate McDonalds food for the first time when I was 15, I was on a fun weekend with my class. Threw it up a few hours later (no booze involved). So very uncool :cry:.

 

 

 

On a trip to the USA a few years ago, I had not much choice but to try it again. If you're not 21, and without your parents, it's hard to evade the food for a full 3 weeks. On the bright side, I didn't throw it up again. But I can't say I was particularly enchanted by the taste of the stuff.

[Guest]

Same here. I ate McDonalds food for the first time when I was 15

 

 

 

You ate McDonald's for the first time after 15 years? Did your parents tie you up and lock you inside your cupboard? 15 and you finally ate McDonalds? Serious?! :shock:

[Sumpta]

Same here. I ate McDonalds food for the first time when I was 15

 

 

 

You ate McDonald's for the first time after 15 years? Did your parents tie you up and lock you inside your cupboard? 15 and you finally ate McDonalds? Serious?! :shock:

 

 

 

Umm, yeah, I'm serious. I'd never had kebab, take away/frozen pizza, nor any of the typical fried meat junk before I went to university at 18. My mother stems from another era, I guess, and she's an excellent cook, so she always cooked our meals herself. If we went out for food, it was usually at restaurants with 'decent' food.

 

 

 

After that bad encounter at 15, I wasn't too hasty to try any of it again when going out with friends. By now, my stomach does hold the stuff, but still... pizza's my favourite junk, but the rest, I could easily live without.

 

 

 

You know, my visit to the USA was a bit of a culture shock in that respect. They have fast food chains with places on every corner of every street, it seems. Not just McDonalds, but loads of others too (like Starbucks and that doughnut place, don't remember its name). In Belgium, we have our fair share of McDonalds restaurants as well, but there are more alternatives, I guess. In the USA, we sometimes had no idea where to get 'decent' and affordable food, like a simple vegetable/cheese sandwich (made out of bread with grains, not the mushy stuff). It was especially difficult because we couldn't go to some places because we weren't 21 yet.

[doomy]

Omg nz are fatter than Australia!

 

Ah well, at least i'm not fat :-$

 

Far from it, actually.

[Guest]

Same here. I ate McDonalds food for the first time when I was 15

 

 

 

You ate McDonald's for the first time after 15 years? Did your parents tie you up and lock you inside your cupboard? 15 and you finally ate McDonalds? Serious?! :shock:

 

 

 

Umm, yeah, I'm serious. I'd never had kebab, take away/frozen pizza, nor any of the typical fried meat junk before I went to university at 18. My mother stems from another era, I guess, and she's an excellent cook, so she always cooked our meals herself. If we went out for food, it was usually at restaurants with 'decent' food.

 

 

 

After that bad encounter at 15, I wasn't too hasty to try any of it again when going out with friends. By now, my stomach does hold the stuff, but still... pizza's my favourite junk, but the rest, I could easily live without.

 

 

 

You know, my visit to the USA was a bit of a culture shock in that respect. They have fast food chains with places on every corner of every street, it seems. Not just McDonalds, but loads of others too (like Starbucks and that doughnut place, don't remember its name). In Belgium, we have our fair share of McDonalds restaurants as well, but there are more alternatives, I guess. In the USA, we sometimes had no idea where to get 'decent' and affordable food, like a simple vegetable/cheese sandwich (made out of bread with grains, not the mushy stuff). It was especially difficult because we couldn't go to some places because we weren't 21 yet.

 

 

 

Well you must be one incredibly healthy person then!

 

 

 

Unless you're addicted to Belgium chocolate, and in that case I could understand you being fat! =P~ :lol:

[Matok]

 

Unless you're addicted to Belgium chocolate, and in that case I could understand you being fat! =P~ :lol:

 

Or Belgium beer :wink: Leffe ftw

[Sumpta]

Unless you're addicted to Belgium chocolate

 

 

 

I plead guilty :oops:. Our chocolate is the main reason why I wouldn't want to move abroad. Seriously.

 

 

 

Also, remember how my mother's an excellent cook? She's also an excellent baker, and I've inherited many recipes... I follow my mother's tradition of baking something every Sunday. So umm, healthy? Yeaaah, up to a certain point. I fear we Belgians do live Bourgondic lives, as we say it here. We have a huge eating and drinking culture, similar to that of the French. The saying goes that the Belgian cuisine is as fine in taste as the French and as large in quantity as the German. Luckily, I'm blessed with a good metabolism :D.

[Guest]

Unless you're addicted to Belgium chocolate

 

 

 

I plead guilty :oops:. Our chocolate is the main reason why I wouldn't want to move abroad. Seriously.

 

 

 

Also, remember how my mother's an excellent cook? She's also an excellent baker, and I've inherited many recipes... I follow my mother's tradition of baking something every Sunday. So umm, healthy? Yeaaah, up to a certain point. I fear we Belgians do live Bourgondic lives, as we say it here. We have a huge eating and drinking culture, similar to that of the French. The saying goes that the Belgian cuisine is as fine in taste as the French and as large in quantity as the German. Luckily, I'm blessed with a good metabolism :D.

 

 

 

Damn you lucky thing! Guylian Chocolate FTW! That's what we get over here in Australia.

 

 

 

Though the only thing you're missing out in life, in terms of food is a good ole' Aussie Barbecue! A couple of snags and a steak cooked on the grills and its the closest thing food gets to heaven! :lol:

 

 

 

Oh and I'm probably going to Germany at the end of the year for exchange for a few weeks and I'm staying over Christmas time and I hear that the Europeans just sit inside and have a feast of everything delicious on Christmas Day! Can't wait! :D

[Blue_Eggz]

America isn't first? Oh well.

[Sumpta]

Damn you lucky thing! Guylian Chocolate FTW! That's what we get over here in Australia.

 

 

 

Guylian chocolate is indeed very nice, but when you're in Germany, try to get your hands on chocolate with this label. It's the chocolate we keep for ourselves for daily use and it's divine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh and it's true. On Christmas we get together with our families shortly after noon, simply to eat and drink our finest and to talk all day through. It's a bit stressful for the cook though, because he/she has to show off their skills for the whole family. And then we repeat the whole thing on New Year's Eve with our friends. Most people have to go on a diet when Christmas/New Year is over or suffer from indigestion.

 

 

 

That Aussie barbeque does sound good though, my brother spent a few months in Australia and loved them... we're having the most awful summer for barbeques here this year.

[runemetsa]

How cool, Finland's number 48 :-k

[MidnightSoul]

Most of my weight is muscle >.<

 

I've got no fat, my metabolism is bloody fast.

 

I shed weight as soon as I gain it -.-

 

I'm not really healthy, i enjoy a McDonalds as much as the next person but I rarely get one.

 

Meh, for someone from the UK, i'm doing not bad :P

[nicrune007]

woot singapore is 22% thats good to know

[x76]

From reading what I've read, it seems like they're just doing the math with people above 25 BMI, regardless if its muscle or not. I'm 193lbs(about 87.5kg, 13.8 stone) 5'10"(about 178cm give or take a couple tenths) and I'm in no way fat.

[Echofish]

Philippines is 155! \ Just 25%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It plucks me a sadness string to see Ethiopia and alot of 3rd world countries at the bottom of the list. I wonder why it's so hard to give the food we would waste to those are in desperate need of it.