You do.......you often find lots of pissed up youths at all sorts of other events....and in places like the valley etc....most nights

Maybe drinking ?

The 2007-08 Australian National Health Survey

• 61.4% of the Australian population are either overweight or obese

The 2008 Health Survey for England (HSE) data shows that:

• 61.4% of adults (aged 16 or over) in England were overweight or obese

Quite a similarity between the two countries....

Even the figures for Obesity are very similar

• England: 24.5% of adults, men and women were equally were obese.
• Australia: 25.6% of males and 24% of females were classified as obese

Hmm, apparently Australia is a "fatter" country than the UK...

Going by the above figures you're only one bacon butty behind

Include the rest of the UK and the Uk is well ahead. Obesity and drinking is worse in Scotland and Wales.

That is completely impossible to prove either way.

For any number of reasons me old mucker.

Life choices and chances? The suburb and the car - the availability of fast and rubbish food? Demographics?

Bit of bad luck with the medical history?

I see plenty of overweight people but like any naturalist, I know where I can find them and I know where I can minimise the chances of an encounter...

Although I see more fat people in Australia than in the UK, I'm inclined to agree with the official stats....and say there is not much in it - and yes, it is hard to prove because of the fact it is so hard to compare like with like.

i was fit and healthy before i went to the doc. came out with a skin doc referral, an eye doc referral, diabetes and hypertension. not going there again!!!.

We have taken the batteries out of the tv remote

We had the following for xmas:

tiger Prawns (precooked)
Mussells (steamed)
Barrimundi (steamed)
Advocado
Aspargus
Baked potatoes
Fruit salad

No chips, no nuts, no chocolate
No wine, no beer just water

i was certainly much healthier in australia, there is also a phenomenon known as the "Heathrow injection" (leads to a stone weight gain that mysteriosly drops off on departure) that aussies complain about once in the uk, you can put this down to booze but then they drink enough of that in oz to rule this out as an excuse! There is nothing like a cold miserable evening and a depressing tube ride to discourage you from excercise and encourage you to veg in front of the tele eating crap

So how does that explain the huge number of lardarses over here then.....is it the 'Sydney Injection'?

How about the 'Living south of 23 degrees' injection? - and that's before taking into account daylight hrs.

Both injections have equal ...point....Grayling. Or is this a pissing contest?

I thought this thread was about the Australian lifestyle (sic) making people healthier.....yet there are as many or more lardarses here.

My view is both countries have an unquantifiable problem. Why argue about which is worst? Fix it.

I am not arguing.....simply pointing out the absurdity of the original proposition.