Common People?

[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:

  1. 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).

  2. The studies were not done very well.

  3. 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.

I find that in Vancouver there are very few muscular people. The people that are “fit” are just skinny joggers. I would say that at my school about 25% of students are overweight.