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PostPosted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:38 am 
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America, guess what, you're not number 1 anymore! Us Aussies have taken over!

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Australia now world's fattest nation
http://www.theage.com.au/news/health/au ... ntentSwap1
Jill Stark
June 20, 2008

Australia has become the fattest nation in the world, with more than 9 million adults now rated as obese or overweight, according to an alarming new report.

The most definitive picture of the national obesity crisis to date has found that Australians now outweigh Americans and face a future "fat bomb" that could cause 123,000 premature deaths over the next two decades.

If the crisis is not averted, obesity experts have warned, health costs could top $6 billion and an extra 700,000 people will be admitted to hospital for heart attacks, strokes and blood clots caused by excess weight.

The latest figures show 4 million Australians — or 26% of the adult population — are now obese compared to an estimated 25% of Americans. A further 5 million Australians are considered overweight.
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You can take your hot dogs and stick 'em. All hail the meat pie, the fried dim sim, the pluto pup and whatever they put in them cheapo thick sausages!

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I thought with all the heat you'd at least sweat most of it off...

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We're No. 2! We're No. 2! Woo hoo!


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We're No. 2! We're No. 2! Woo hoo!

Phew! All this excitement has got me winded. I think I need a Whataburger.

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punkdavid wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
We're No. 2! We're No. 2! Woo hoo!

Phew! All this excitement has got me winded. I think I need a Whataburger.


:lol:

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Chris_H_2 wrote:
We're No. 2! We're No. 2! Woo hoo!

I thought Ohio State had that chant reserved.


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start eating america!

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Maybe this will cause certain female aussies of a melbourne-ish persuasion to come a little bit off of their australian high horses :)


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Maybe this will cause certain female aussies of a melbourne-ish persuasion to come a little bit off of their australian high horses :)

oh mother trucking snap!

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Maybe this will cause certain female aussies of a melbourne-ish persuasion to come a little bit off of their australian high horses :)

Damn vegans can't stack on weight. We'll do our best to compensate for such folk.

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Hinny wrote:
washing machine wrote:
Maybe this will cause certain female aussies of a melbourne-ish persuasion to come a little bit off of their australian high horses :)

Damn vegans can't stack on weight. We'll do our best to compensate for such folk.

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washing machine wrote:
Maybe this will cause certain female aussies of a melbourne-ish persuasion to come a little bit


well, I wanked it


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Fat, loud, obnoxious and smelly. What a country!

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Deano wrote:
Fat, loud, obnoxious and smelly. What a country!

Heh, I remember at least two Aussies telling me when I was there that NZ was smelly.


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Rotorua for the loss :(

I don't have a problem with Australians, just their hideous fucking accents.

If it makes you feel any better though, I read somewhere that New Zealand has some of the fattest children in the world (see: laziest parenting).

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Soma. wrote:
Rotorua for the loss :(

Heh, but at least that's natural smelly. Visually, it's rather pretty.
Soma. wrote:
I don't have a problem with Australians, just their hideous fucking accents.

I couldn't tell much of a difference, but then again I'm just an ignorant Yank.


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Ours is lazier and probably makes us sound stupid as a result, but theirs is far more piercing and snarly.

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Soma. wrote:
Ours is lazier and probably makes us sound stupid as a result, but theirs is far more piercing and snarly.

Maybe the culture has something to do with it? You Kiwis always seem more laid back than your western neighbors.


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http://www.who.int/infobase/comparestart.aspx

funny, the World Health Organisation doesn't agree with this report.

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