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Poor Britons healthier than rich Americans | 61 comments (61 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
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Alex touched on the different sorts of obesity, but your note is also a good one.  Compare (say) the obese truck driver with the obese NFL lineman.  The truck driver would have difficulty running 40 yards.  The NFL lineman can do it in four and a half seconds.  (I'm about ten pounds underweight, and on my best day I can't run it in that time.)  That connects with Migeru's point, as well.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.
by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 12:49:40 PM EST
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That is because obesity is usually defined by Body Mass Index only, which assumes that everyone has the same body type.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 12:52:43 PM EST
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Poor Britons healthier than rich Americans | 61 comments (61 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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