<div class="gmail_quote">On 13 September 2012 16:46, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> The US is facing bleak times with 46 million surviving on food stamps<br></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
<br>Yes they are barely surviving, a sizable minority of them are morbidly obese.<br clear="all"></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Somebody used to say: The difference between poor countries and rich countries is that in pour countries the poor are thinner than the rich, in rich countries is the opposite.<br>
<br>Because they are not so much into caloric restriction but rather into a carbo-based diet, often supplemented by a quite sedentary lifestyle. A debatable advantage...<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>