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Obesity by country
Rank Countries Amount
# 1 United States: 30.6%
# 2 Mexico: 24.2%
# 3 United Kingdom: 23%
# 4 Slovakia: 22.4%
# 5 Greece: 21.9%
# 6 Australia: 21.7%
# 7 New Zealand: 20.9%
# 8 Hungary: 18.8%
# 9 Luxembourg: 18.4%
# 10 Czech Republic: 14.8%
# 11 Canada: 14.3%
# 12 Spain: 13.1%
# 13 Ireland: 13%
# 14 Germany: 12.9%
= 15 Portugal: 12.8%
= 15 Finland: 12.8%
# 17 Iceland: 12.4%
# 18 Turkey: 12%
# 19 Belgium: 11.7%
# 20 Netherlands: 10%
# 21 Sweden: 9.7%
# 22 Denmark: 9.5%
# 23 France: 9.4%
# 24 Austria: 9.1%
# 25 Italy: 8.5%
# 26 Norway: 8.3%
# 27 Switzerland: 7.7%
= 28 Japan: 3.2%
= 28 Korea, South: 3.2%
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity

 

[Nimnim]

Obesity by country
Rank Countries Amount
# 1 United States: 30.6%
# 2 Mexico: 24.2%
# 3 United Kingdom: 23%
# 4 Slovakia: 22.4%
# 5 Greece: 21.9%
# 6 Australia: 21.7%
# 7 New Zealand: 20.9%
# 8 Hungary: 18.8%
# 9 Luxembourg: 18.4%
# 10 Czech Republic: 14.8%
# 11 Canada: 14.3%
# 12 Spain: 13.1%
# 13 Ireland: 13%
# 14 Germany: 12.9%
= 15 Portugal: 12.8%
= 15 Finland: 12.8%
# 17 Iceland: 12.4%
# 18 Turkey: 12%
# 19 Belgium: 11.7%
# 20 Netherlands: 10%
# 21 Sweden: 9.7%
# 22 Denmark: 9.5%
# 23 France: 9.4%
# 24 Austria: 9.1%
# 25 Italy: 8.5%
# 26 Norway: 8.3%
# 27 Switzerland: 7.7%
= 28 Japan: 3.2%
= 28 Korea, South: 3.2%
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity

Hah! Canadia isn't good enough to be in the top 10!

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Hah! Canadia isn't good enough to be in the top 10!

Really not a list you want to be #1 on.

 

[dilligaf]

Hah! Canadia isn't good enough to be in the top 10!

Only by a half a percent.

 

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Vermont leads the nation in daily consumption of fruits & veggies - 29.3% of adults eat the right amount. Next are Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, then California.

 

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$1,587........the average amount a resident of Oklahoma - the top state - donated to charity in 2009.

*Source: Bundle Report

 

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Biggest Spenders...........Austin, Texas
Best City for online dating.......Boston
Best Bike Culture.............Portland, Oregon
Best Sports City (2010)...........Chicago
Most vegetarian friendly.........Washington D.C.

 

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Most snow - Syracuse, N.Y. (avg. snowfall: 118.8 ")
Most rain - Hilo, Hawaii (avg. rainfall: 126.27")
Most sun - Yuma, AZ. (90% of the time)
Least sun - Juneau, Alaska (30% of the time)

*source: NOAA for cities with 30,000+ people.

 

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308,745,538......number of people living in America.

source: U.S. Census Bureau

 

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Engagements & Weddings

$5,392 Avg. cost of an engagement ring.
$1,099 Avg. amount spent on a wedding dress.
$26,984 Avg. cost of a wedding.

source: The Knot Inc.

 

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Most Popular Dog Breeds..........

L.A...........Bulldog
N.Y...........Yorkshire Terrier
Detroit & Miami ........... German Shepherd
Across America.......Labrador Retriever

source - America Kennel Club

 

[stevetheupsguy]

Most Popular Dog Breeds..........

L.A...........Bulldog
N.Y...........Yorkshire Terrier
Detroit & Miami ........... German Shepherd
Across America.......Labrador Retriever

source - America Kennel Club

My Household.............................Australian Shepherd, both beatiful, and smart!

 

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Relationships..........

54.1% of adults reported being married in 2010

2.1 million marriages took place in 2009

6% of married women have been so for at least 50 years

First Dates in America....... Who asks? 50% of womensay they would ask a man on a first date

Not worth it.......13% of people have walked out on a first date

Second chance......66% of people decide in the first half hour if there will be another date.

 

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America's Favorites......

T.V. Star............Mark Harmon

Sport...................Football

Cookie....................Oreo

Candy......................M&M's

Ice Cream Topping......Hot Fudge

sources: Harris, Bloomberg Businessweek, Symphony IRI Group

 

[klein]

Statistics

Statistics Canada is the best place to find out statistical information about Canada and Canadians.




StatsCan is far more comprehensive an organization than the US Census Bureau. Some key differences between Canada and the States:

• Canada has a lower infant mortality rate and a longer life expectancy.
• Almost ten times as many people live in the States. Population of Canada, 1998: 30 675 398
  Population of the US, 1998: 270 311 756
• Canada has 9,976,100 square kilometers; the United States has 9,372,600.
• Canada spends more of its gross domestic product (GDP) on education and less on health care than the United States.

Random facts

• Canada has more donut shops per capita than the United States does.
• Canada's national animal is the beaver.
• Canada's two official sports are lacrosse and hockey.
• Canada's national colors are red and white.
• Canadians consume more Kraft Dinner (aka Kraft Macaroni & Cheese) per capita than any other nationality on Earth.

Many of Canada's cities and provinces have nicknames:
Toronto T.O., The Big Smoke, Hogtown, Muddy York
Vancouver (sometimes all of B.C.) Lotusland, Hongcouver (referring to the large number of immigrants from Hong Kong)
Calgary Cowtown
Edmonton Deadmonton, Edmonchuk (referring to the large number of Ukranian families there)
Hamilton Steeltown
Ottawa Bytown (after Colonel By)
Sault Ste. Marie The Soo
Winnipeg The Peg, Winnepago, Winterpeg
Newfoundland The Rock
St. Catharines St. Kits

 

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23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.

About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.

Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
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NUTS..............

Researchers at the University of Scranton recently compared the antioxidant content of nine different types of nuts. The winner? Walnuts, which contain greater and more potent amounts of the cancer fighting chemicals than any other nut.

The runners-up: Brazil nuts, peanuts, pecans and pistachios.

 

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Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

 

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Why does wine need to breathe before you drink it?

During their "aging" process in the bottle wines gain a series of different and precious characters, mainly bouquet (smell) and taste (meaning the way your palate and tongue react to it).

Well, the longer time in the bottle the less they need to "breathe". In this case breathe means not more than oxidation. Oxidation, as you probably know, is the the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons.

This process is generated differently (slowly) inside of the bottle, but it occurs, so the "Younger" the wine the more breathing it needs. For a very young wine, you can open the bottle many hours before your dining, for an "old" wine can be only a hour or maybe less. In fact if a very old wine breathes too long it will probably collapse (chemically-wise) losing all its properties.

It's also important to know, that in some cases, breathing is not good enough. You also have to decant the wine, this means pouring the whole bottle to a jug or jar. The agitation summed to the aeration (or breathing) will release previously closed aromas and "open" more flavors. Again "decanting" is more important in young wines.

Finally, red wines are usually the ones that need breathing. Salud !! (Cheers !!)

 

[moreluck]

You know, when you watch the Hollywood news and there are pictures of stars posing in front of a wall with some words of product advertising on the wall ?? Do you know what that wall at every event is called ??
The 'step & repeat' . In case you were wondering.