Lol as much as you like Paulina, write long studenty diatribes but it all comes down to how reliable the stats supplied by Poland are.
You mean data from WHO and OECD for Poland are unreliable and for other countries are reliable? Any proof for such claim?
Get as touchy as you like, use as many emoticons as you can squeeze out
But I'm not the one getting touchy here :)) It was you who immediately reacted after mcrpolak's comment like a true British patriot, which I found to be funny ;) I also remembered watching some news on the BBC about the UK being "the fat man of Europe" and so I googled a bit.
it doesn't alter the fact that the traditional diet of Poland is extremely unhealthy, with high levels of salt, sugar, extremely high levels of processed meats.
Jon357, I'm not discussing traditional diet of Poland and the UK, but which nation is more obese. WHO data show that the UK was and probably still is, unless you can prove otherwise (with data and not your wishful thinking).
Btw, I'm not sure if by "traditional diet" you mean traditional dishes of Polish cuisine. If yes, then to be honest I don't associate British traditional food with something terribly healthy. And even if it is, let us assume, more healthy than Polish (which I doubt because both are Northern nations) do the British eat their traditional food anymore?:
listovative.com/top-15-fattest-countries-world-rtr/
"If Ireland is here, England can't be too far away, can it? After the World War 2, UK saw a boost in industrialization, commercialization along with general growth and development. This has very well paved the path to obesity in the country. Researchers opine that due to the modernization of culture, their traditional food is less available and fast food and junk and unhealthy food is more readily available.The obesity rate in UK as of now is 23% and it only seems to be increasing day by day."I think it's no surprise that the least obese countries in the EU were and maybe still are: Romania, Italy, Bulgaria and France:
wiadomosci.onet.pl/wielka-brytania-i-irlandia/w-ue-najwiecej-otylych-w-wielkiej-brytanii-i-na-malcie-usa-wciaz-na-1-miejscu/lvfs1
This data is from 2008 and 2009 and the UK even then came at the top (1st place for women and 2nd for men).
I doubt you've had much chance to compare people.
I don't, but my mum was in the UK and there was plenty of comparison done by the British for years on this forum.
Btw, as for the British men that I've met in my city - I've met more overweight ones than slim ones, for what it's worth (the most overweight one was married to an English lady who was a chef in a restaurant, btw ;) - and yet in the UK she was feeding her children with frozen fries bought in a store and pizza... *
smh*).
And, anyway, the UK is such a multicultural country (so many Poles, as you say) so how do you know that those slim men that you see are British and not Polish, for example? :) ;)
There are a lot of fact people in Poland, especially the men, and more worryingly, some of the highest levels of stomach cancer in Europe.
There are a lot of fat people in the EU and Europe (I think that I've read somewhere that 50% are overweight) and it's getting worse, including in Poland - you can, for example, hear it on Polish TV - about Polish kids getting fatter and hence the government's reaction about the food and drinks being sold and served in schools. However, there are less and more obese nations in Europe and apparently the UK is one of the most overweight nations in Europe. More so than Poland, unless, of course, you can prove otherwise with more recent data.