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!
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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!