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by Linda Hernestal da Silva on May 13, 2007
Researchers are now trying to prevent this problem for Swedish girls. A recent study shows that Swedish girls are more overweight than Swedish boys.
An analysis of children who are overweight - not obese - the percentage of overweight 4-year-olds has roughly doubled to 20 percent for girls and 18 percent for boys during the same 20-year period. (Generally, a child 42 inches tall weighing 50 pounds would be considered obese; the same child weighing 45 pounds would be considered overweight.)
They still don't know the explanation for this, Sweden is considered to be a slim country and has been so for a long time.
Being Swedish myself I think this is interesting. Swedish people are very health concerned and you can find excellent food options in the supermarket. With food from all over the world it's easy to get a bit carried away when planning what to eat.
The above has to be connected to what the Swedish people are eating. The traditional "husmanskost", good food to keep you going for a long day at work, is slowly disappearing. We are now more open minded and want to try need food, we experiment more and that leads to a different food consumption. Not necessarily a good one.
Hopefully it doesn't get to the point when half of the population are obese.
Are the Swedes getting chubby?
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this is something where americans always have a problem. pointing out other peoples problems and not concentrating on their own.
so what if the sweed's are getting fat. who cares?
there's worse things going on in the world, and what do we talk about? how fat another country is getting. talk about the pot calling the kettle black. we are the last people that should be criticizing on another country's size.
i still have yet to see a solution to "world hunger" or even global warming. well i got a solution for "world hunger". why don't we take all the food that we got and send it to those "needy children". americans won't have worry about getting fat then.
that's another problem we as americans have. people are constantly hammered and crammed with how we are "supposed" to look. constantly we are brainwashed with images of models in adds and t.v. shows. after this we turn around and wonder why anorexia is such a problem here.
its things like this that distract us from the real problems. our attention is is constantly being distracted with one thing, while something else is going on somewhere else. by doing this, there's all kinds of things that "the man behind the curtain" is getting away with. right under our noses. but we are to distracted to care. what the heck is up with that?