[quote]AlbertaBeef wrote:
According to statistics, Canadians apparently have higher rates of overweightness and obesity people than the United States.
Yet when I go to the states, it’s obvious that those numbers are fucked. I see more horrifically obese people in five minutes in Colorado than I do in five years in Alberta.
This leads me to conclude either:
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Canada and the States have different criteria for “overweight” and “obese” (at 190 lbs and 5’ 9" I’m considered “preobese” by BMI, despite my fairly decently defined abs).
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The studies were not done very well.
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All the fat-asses are out East and thus I never see them.
I prefer to go with “3”. :D[/quote]
It could be as easy as #3 or the fact that those numbers are based on population totals. I think the U.S. has a higher population than Canada and therefore will have more “things” visible than Canada, despite Canada having a higher percentage.