Obesity map of Europe

**capocannoniere** · 03-23-2023, 01:11 AM

Do you feel the map is accurate? Which country surprised you the most?

**capocannoniere** · 03-23-2023, 01:18 AM

Imo the biggest surprise to me is just how few countries have less than 1 out of every 5 people in a condition of obesity. As for Spain, I understan why they are so fat, their food is the perfect midpoint between decadence and taste, I would gain weight like crazy there.

**Petalpusher** · 04-20-2023, 02:50 PM

Obesity is a bit of a special condition, overweight is a better metric based on BMI. I would have assumed Dutch were more overweight based on what i ve seen (specially women). Apparently they re not, or there is a greater disparity between men and women there. UK that was definitely obvious.

**Dandelion** · 04-20-2023, 02:55 PM

Spaniard the runner-ups to the Brits. That always was the case in Western Europe. Spaniards also love to joke about Italian pasta dishes (at least an Andalusian woman I know does). Joke is on the fatty Spaniard honorary wetbacks.

Eastern Europe surpassing us it due to the men eating salo and not being able to refuse the babushkas.

**Incal** · 04-20-2023, 02:57 PM

I can understand Turkey:

**Dandelion** · 04-20-2023, 03:01 PM

Turks with all their kebab junk food. Over here fatty people also like that. One Turkish invention by their diaspora in the Netherlands.

So colour me unsurprised.

**White Swan** · 04-20-2023, 04:35 PM

Does this correspond to IQ if you account for decadence?

As in, high IQ tends to be skinny because your ancestors never starved/had to carry extra weight to survive.

**Lemminkäinen** · 04-20-2023, 05:09 PM

BMI 25 doesn't mean much. Muscular men easily pass 25. The limit weight for 180 cm is 81 kg. I am 181/78. Being lighter I would lose muscles.

**Hektor12** · 04-20-2023, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by Dandelion

Turks with all their kebab junk food.

Its rather our pastry like börek and baklava. Our mothers love making and of course eating them. By the way Turkish obesity isnt like American obesity. Just this=

**capocannoniere** · 04-20-2023, 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by White Swan

Does this correspond to IQ if you account for decadence?

As in, high IQ tends to be skinny because your ancestors never starved/had to carry extra weight to survive.

Implying IQ is that meaningful, the differences between European countries are marginal and USAmericans would be all dumbasses, which is a lie as much as we love to joke about it.