Obesity pandemic engulfing world: experts

[Jared Moya]

Obesity has reached pandemic proportions throughout the world and is now the greatest single contributor to chronic disease, an international conference was told here.

"This insidious, creeping pandemic of obesity is now engulfing the entire world," Australia's Monash University professor Paul Zimmet, chair of the 10th International Congress on Obesity, said on the opening day of the conference.

The spread of the problem was "led by affluent western nations, whose physical activity and dietary habits are regrettably being adopted by developing nations," Zimmet told more than 2,000 delegates.

The world now has more fat people than hungry ones, according to World Health Organisation figures, with more than a billion overweight people compared to 800 million who are undernourished.

The congress on obesity is held every four years, with the last three staged in Toronto (1994), Paris (1998) and Sao Paulo (2002).

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/0....f0p6azce.html

[fleecy]

reminds me of lazyboy- "how bad was it, grandpa?" "oh, it was awful. there was cheesecake everywhere". lol

[mountain_rage]

I wonder if terrorist are laugh when they see fat ass americains.

[shawners]

I wonder if terrorist are laugh when they see fat ass americains.

considering that there the ones undernourished. I doubt it.

[Jared Moya]

considering that there the ones undernourished. I doubt it.

Im sure we make better targets this way though... :(

[mfgbypooter]

yeah but how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat.

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[black_magiic]

reminds me of lazyboy- "how bad was it, grandpa?" "oh, it was awful. there was cheesecake everywhere". lol

I was just abou to quote that lol

[fleecy]

the sad part is it's true :S

[Mels_Smileys45]

We are living the good life but that could all change very easily. Let a drought happen or let mad cow and the chicken flu get out of hand. Suddenly we may be eating the fat people. I'll have a McFatty with cheese please.

[fleecy]

don't you know what one of those would do to your arteries? :)

[shawners]

don't you know what one of those would do to your arteries? :)

Not to mention what it do for your friends and loved ones.