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Originally Posted by Graeme
Australians wearing funny hats? Maybe if they did they wouldn't have the highest rate of skin cancer in the world. Some record! The problem is that wearing hats in Australia is seen as nerdy. Anyway I don't know how Aussies are portrayed in America. In Australia, Americans are portrayed as obese, wearing hawaiian shirts, odd looking shorts with their guts hanging over and screaming out the top of their voices. Stereotypes are stereotypes.
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Yea, that sounds about right. I have an answer for the cause. It is high frutose corn syrup. It is put into everything as a filler and a cheap sugar: drinks, bread, all manner of sweet things. The problem is that it is far worse than sugar. The liver slams it into fat almost at once. Meanwhile, the body secrets insulin in its presence and every calorie you have floating around in your blood stream from that meal is instantly turned to fat. This means on your artery walls, under the skin, in the heart---where ever it is at the time.
Americans don't eat more than Europeans, they eat more high frutose corn syrup, so they are fatter.
By the way, Graeme, I have actually met the guy in the Hawaiian surt and maybe I can add to it. This holotype American was on a shuttle bus coming off an airliner from the Mainland at Honolulu Int. Airport. He was from New York, with a Yorker accent, a Jew, and had a pound of gold jewelery around his fat neck. He was barking at the bus driver in Yiddish, sweating and trying to suck in the belly fat he had aquired in Brooklyn, eating ice cream forty years before. He pushed his way out of the bus, first, and whined about being late for something while wiping the sweat off the bald spot with the baseball cap.