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The Fat Anglosphere

  According to this information, of the six fattest nations on Earth, five are English-speaking. Why do you suppose that is? Seriously, what is it about the Anglosphere that makes us so prone to obesity? It’s not our relative prosperity. There are countries just as prosperous as we are whose populations are dramatically thinner. It […]

 

According to this information, of the six fattest nations on Earth, five are English-speaking. Why do you suppose that is? Seriously, what is it about the Anglosphere that makes us so prone to obesity? It’s not our relative prosperity. There are countries just as prosperous as we are whose populations are dramatically thinner.

It has to be cultural. But what? Ideas? I keep thinking about how I’ve never seen in continental Europe an all you can eat buffet.

(I found this on Steve Sailer’s site, attached to a Sen. Marco Rubio quote saying that Mexico — whose people are the second-fattest in the world — sent so many illegal immigrants into America because they had no other way to feed their children.)

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