autoload wrote:I was debating on whether to weigh in, now I think I will contribute.
I am in the United States studying from India. Everything is different here as can be expected. The most striking difference I noticed is the COMPLETE PROLIFERATION OF OBESE PEOPLE HERE!!!!!
You Americans are a sad, sad country of individuals and I used the word "individuals" purposely. No one cares for the community, just to stick more fried foods into their fat mouths!
I can not wait to go back to India and remove the stench of you Americans from my nostrils.
So... there are no Fat people in India?? I beg to differ!!! Go google OBESITY in India...
Professor Kapil said that school surveys in Indian cities show that 30% of adolescents from India's higher economic groups are overweight.
Mumbai: India is facing an obesity crisis among its newly wealthy middle class as millions of its rural poor still struggle for enough to eat.
Seventy-six per cent of women in the capital, New Delhi, are suffering from abdominal obesity, according to a survey by the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences. 'It is a serious problem for India,' The problem underlines the vast divide between India's thriving urban areas and the impoverished rural regions, where millions are struggling to feed themselves.
'Politicians still ask "How can people here have obesity when they are dying of malnutrition?" They think malaria and TB are much more serious,' Misra said.
The new study is important because as obesity rises, India is beginning to feel the burden of associated chronic diseases, the researchers said. Among these are heart disease, hypertension and adult-onset diabetes. The World Health Organization estimates the latter will triple there from 19.4 million cases in 1995 to 57.2 million in 2025.
All Things Considered, September 13, 2006 · In India, which has more undernourished people than any other country in the world, a new problem is emerging: A study conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, India, reveals that in cities - especially in north India - over 50 per cent women and 40 per cent men aged 35+ are overweight.
*And further more about INDIA
Even more than 50 years after independence from almost two centuries of British rule, large scale poverty remains the most shameful blot on the face of India.
More than 40 per cent of the population is illiterate, with women, tribal and scheduled castes particularly affected.
The main causes of poverty are illiteracy, a population growth rate by far exceeding the economic growth rate for the better part of the past 50 years, protectionist policies pursued since 1947 to 1991 which prevented large amounts of foreign investment in the country.
Eradication of poverty can only be a very long-term goal in India.
Go the f*ck home soon!! your ignorance is polluting America!!! You should feel lucky that we allowed you to even be here....What are you gonna do when India is filled with Fat Asses like The U.S.A. cause it is going to be...You live in a Poverty filled, filthy, fat assed country full of thieves. Obesity is a serious Disease and makes people very sick and hard to live. its a disease as serious as Cancer or Aids. HOW could you be so mean. And what do you believe about Karma? Could it be that what you said here is going to bite you in your big obese ass someday.