標題: Canadian women are getting fat -- and fast [打印本頁] 作者: tiffiant 時間: 2011-2-4 07:36 標題: Canadian women are getting fat -- and fast
Canadian women are getting fat -- and fast
Among leaders in the world's fat race
Tamara Slobogean Feb 04, 2011 06:22:59 AM
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - If your healthy New Year's resolution is losing its lustre already, maybe this story will get you motivated again. Canadian women are among the leaders in the world's fat race.
In a comparison of countries in the high-income world, studies in The Lancet have determined women in Canada are among the leaders, gaining weight faster than almost any other women.
On the streets of Vancouver, we met one woman rushing off to exercise who's pretty sure we're not quite number one. "I think we're catching up to the US, definitely."
The research finds Canadian women are indeed lagging behind the heavyweight champion of the wealthy world. But women in this country now have some of the highest average body mass indexes.
BMI over 25 is considered overweight and the average index for Canadian women as of 2008 was 26.7.
