[Streaker]

$1:

How Americans Became The Fattest People In The World
by Lesley Garner
The Sunday Mail, March 2, 2003

McDONALD'S, the global brand for burgers and fries, has come over all green. Salad is going to be on the menu along with Big Macs. Eggs have gone organic. Lard has been replaced with vegetable oil. Macca's is even going to follow the supermarkets and print a calorie count of its food on the packaging.

Call me a cynic, but I wonder if it's anything to do with the fact that McDonald's had been facing a class action lawsuit. Gregory Rhymes is a 15-year-old American boy who weighs a whopping 178kg and suffers from Type II diabetes. With the aid of a New York lawyer, Samuel Hirsch, he claimed his woefully overweight body and ruined health were the fault of McDonald's — because he had eaten there nearly every day since he was six years old.

Last month, the judge threw the case out — but there are some worried people in America's fast food industry. Tobacco companies have already been forced to pay up to cancer sufferers. Could a billion-dollar business that has stuffed Americans with fat and sugar for the past 20 years be called to book as well? McDonald's lettuce leaves are less a gourmet treat than a placebo for the disease that is wreaking havoc in America: obesity.

A new book called Fat Land pulls no punches. Its author Greg Critser subtitles it bluntly: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World.

Most Australians are never more than a walk or short drive from the fix of saturated fat and sugar that has seen our weight, like that of the Americans, ballooning. It is true that there is nothing quite as grossly fat as a fat American. Even clothes sizes have to be coyly renamed to accommodate them. Restaurant chairs and plane seats just aren't big enough.

Only recently, a woman succeeded in suing the hugely fat American who sat next to her on a long-haul flight and overflowed into her space, crushing and injuring her.

But the rest of the world is getting bigger, too. We should be sitting up — while we still can — and paying serious attention to the American situation.

Full article here...

And Canadians are only a couple of steps behind Americans when it comes to obesity.

Should we really be emulating American culture so much when it leads to such widespread obesity, with its ensuing health problems?

[RUEZ]

Streaker Streaker:

$1:

How Americans Became The Fattest People In The World
by Lesley Garner
The Sunday Mail, March 2, 2003

McDONALD'S, the global brand for burgers and fries, has come over all green. Salad is going to be on the menu along with Big Macs. Eggs have gone organic. Lard has been replaced with vegetable oil. Macca's is even going to follow the supermarkets and print a calorie count of its food on the packaging.

Call me a cynic, but I wonder if it's anything to do with the fact that McDonald's had been facing a class action lawsuit. Gregory Rhymes is a 15-year-old American boy who weighs a whopping 178kg and suffers from Type II diabetes. With the aid of a New York lawyer, Samuel Hirsch, he claimed his woefully overweight body and ruined health were the fault of McDonald's — because he had eaten there nearly every day since he was six years old.

Last month, the judge threw the case out — but there are some worried people in America's fast food industry. Tobacco companies have already been forced to pay up to cancer sufferers. Could a billion-dollar business that has stuffed Americans with fat and sugar for the past 20 years be called to book as well? McDonald's lettuce leaves are less a gourmet treat than a placebo for the disease that is wreaking havoc in America: obesity.

A new book called Fat Land pulls no punches. Its author Greg Critser subtitles it bluntly: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World.

Most Australians are never more than a walk or short drive from the fix of saturated fat and sugar that has seen our weight, like that of the Americans, ballooning. It is true that there is nothing quite as grossly fat as a fat American. Even clothes sizes have to be coyly renamed to accommodate them. Restaurant chairs and plane seats just aren't big enough.

Only recently, a woman succeeded in suing the hugely fat American who sat next to her on a long-haul flight and overflowed into her space, crushing and injuring her.

But the rest of the world is getting bigger, too. We should be sitting up — while we still can — and paying serious attention to the American situation.

Full article here...

And Canadians are only a couple of steps behind Americans when it comes to obesity.

Should we really be emulating American culture so much when it leads to such widespread obesity, with its ensuing health problems?

[mtbr]

Canadians don't emulate American culture they can find Tim Hortons on their own.

Its great out here Tim Hortons is attatched to Wendys so they can get "double fat" in one stop.

[Streaker]

Some people think we should be more like Americans, though - Conservatives, of course.

Bad idea.

[mtbr]

Streaker Streaker:

Some people think we should be more like Americans, though - Conservatives, of course.

Bad idea.

I think I would rather be an Americano than a Libarano....

[RUEZ]

Streaker Streaker:

Some people think we should be more like Americans, though - Conservatives, of course.

Bad idea.

I am a Canadian, I don't know about you but I like it that way. I have nothing against Americans, it doesn't mean I want to be one. Why is it that you think people that don't run around disrespecting Americans must want to be just like them?

[fifeboy]

mtbr mtbr:

Streaker Streaker:

Some people think we should be more like Americans, though - Conservatives, of course.

Bad idea.

I think I would rather be an Americano than a Libarano....

Well, don't let us stand in your way.

[tritium]

mtbr mtbr:

Streaker Streaker:

Some people think we should be more like Americans, though - Conservatives, of course.

Bad idea.

I think I would rather be an Americano than a Libarano....

Oh wow, from all your posts I thought you were a Yankee.

Must be the Alberta in you.

[tritium]

[mtbr]

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oh my eyes..is it necessary to put pics of your American relatives on here?

[tritium]

mtbr mtbr:

oh my eyes..is it necessary to put pics of your American relatives on here?

Sorry mtbr, my relatives look like the one on the left. They are all athletes, ski buffs, swimming, hourse back riding, cross country.

My nephew has a wash board stomach, plays hockey religiously and is one 2 high school football teams.

I use to be like that until I spent 12 years in Texas. Now that I am back in Canada, I am starting to get back into those things.

Right now I have a wash board stomach, but with laundry on it.

Lost 20lbs in 4 months.

The minute I stopped drinking 7 to 9 cans of coke a day, that helped. Like a cigarette, I just seem to need a can of coke sitting next to the computer while at work.

[BartSimpson]

Streaker Streaker:

Should we really be emulating American culture so much when it leads to such widespread obesity, with its ensuing health problems?

Nope. Not at all. Canadians should stick to health food like back bacon, Labbat's, and poutine.

[tritium]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Streaker Streaker:

Should we really be emulating American culture so much when it leads to such widespread obesity, with its ensuing health problems?

Nope. Not at all. Canadians should stick to health food like back bacon, Labbat's, and poutine.

oh come on, that just replaces my steady diet of chicharone, Budwisers and Jack in the Box tripple burgers and burritos I use to eat while living in the USA...



The Jack in the Box Heart Stopper!!!!

2 kinds of melted cheese, eggs, sause, hot sausage.

[BartSimpson]

tritium tritium:

The Jack in the Box Heart Stopper!!!!

2 kinds of melted cheese, eggs, sause, hot sausage.

Yum!!!

I can feel my arteries harden just thinking about it!

[fifeboy]

tritium tritium:

HEY, BUTTHEAD, THATS MY WIFE ON THE LEFT, I DIDN'T GIVE PERMISSION FOR YOU TO SHOW HER THONG