Statistics don't lie -- Americans are fat

There's no polite way to say this: Americans are the fattest people on the planet.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Editorial process

Published December 14, 2006

There's no polite way to say this: Americans are the fattest people on the planet.

Americans are heavier than Mexicans, Australians, Greeks, New Zealanders and the British — and they aren't too far behind, the U.S. Census Bureau's 2007 Statistical Abstract of the United States said.

Americans' love of water — Americans drank more than 23 gallons of bottled water per person in 2004 — is balanced by a love of sweets. Americans ate more than twice as much high-fructose corn syrup per person in 2004 as we did in 1980.

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