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Holly crap you've got German's making fun of us. Tell them to get bent. Ask them what it is that goes behind the bra, they are fatty deposits after all. from what've I've seen coming out of Germany it's either round or bean pole, maybe they're just jealous because some of us work out.

I drive by 3 schools getting to work (not bad this time of year, kind of annoying during the school year), kids are nice and skinny and run across the street nice and quick.

I have looked VERY carefully at the stats. Here's what I see: average life expectancy is now kicking right around 80, average height is over 6 feet, average weight is up but as a percentage matches the height increase, the "obesity bar" has been changed to the point that Arnold Swchwartzenager is now obese (like I said, it's a flat scale height to weight, nothing for skeletal build, muscle mass or % body fat). If you keep all the stats except the obesity measure (which is horrid science even those quick little school kids I try not to run over could spot as bogus) you have a clear picture of a nation that's healthier now than ever before. The obsity stats disagree with everything else. Which stats are more likely to be accurate: the one that stands alone or the ones backed up by dozens of others?