WILL AMERICANS FOLLOW THE EUROPEAN EXAMPLE?

According to a Sept. 15th Newsweeek Online column by Gersh Kuntzman, "You may have heard that America is fat. You may have heard that nearly two-thirds of us are overweight and 31 percent of us are obese. You may have even heard last week that the Department of Agriculture will soon decrease the number of calories a person should eat every day, an admission that there's no point in designing diets for the healthy average American when the healthy average American no longer exists...

"Americans bike and walk far less than their European counterparts (what article about American obesity would be complete without a gratuitous comparison with good ol' Europe?). In the U.S., only 7 percent of all trips outside the home are made by walking or biking, compared to 39 percent in Sweden (hey, it's cold there), 34 percent in Switzerland (hey, it's hilly there) and 46 percent in The Netherlands (hey, it's low and swampy there)..."

Source: http://www.msnbc.com/news/967089.asp?0cv=HA00
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