United Press International begins this story in about a blunt a manner as possible.
"There’s no polite way to say this: Americans are the fattest people on the planet," the UPI reporter wrote.
Our dear country’s residents are wider and thicker than the Mexicans, Australians, Greeks, New Zealanders and the British, but they’re gaining, too. So says the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2007 Statistical Abstract of the United States.
Another not-so-sweet fact: Americans ate more than twice as much high-fructose corn syrup per person in 2004 as we did in 1980.
Yikes!
2 thoughts on “Face the Stats: Americans Are Fat”
I came across your blog while searching for ways to eliminate sugar from my diet. I am very slim and active, however, I am plagued by candida, acne, and migraines. I shop pretty wisely (all whole grains, mostly local organic) but I have a colossal sweet tooth that I indulge in private. So after looking through your site and throwing out the sweets from my cabinet I took a closer look at the other items. For example, I read the ingredients in my seemingly healthy country whole grain bread and “natural” pasta sauce and found high fructose corn syrup not far into the list. It’s amazing where this additive is hiding. Thanks for the heads up! I look forward to your book.
“Another not-so-sweet fact: Americans ate more than twice as much high-fructose corn syrup per person in 2004 as we did in 1980.”
Wow! I suspect that has more to do with the fact that high fructose corn syrup was not widely introduced in processed foods until the mid-1980s. I’d be curious to see what that comparison would be if table sugar were also included.
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