Excess: Big Homes, Big Bodies
The alchemic spot blog makes a (humorous?) observation comparing housing statistics with obesity statistics. People are getting bigger, and houses are getting bigger.
But surely with a bigger house you would get more exercise - imagine trying the clean the thing!
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It's probably just a case of correlation, not necessarily causation. Interesting fact though.
ReplyThis is pretty funny and pretty shocking all at the same time. I mean, it is not exactly conclusive that obesity and house size are the only influence on one another, but it is still very interesting.
It spiked my interest enough to see whether the same correlation existed in the UK - and sure enough it does. Admittedly I had to use 'number of bedrooms in new houses built' as an indicator of house size - but still.
I have put the graph up here (Jim, please feel free to delete the live link :)
What is most interesting is that the UK and US have got a similar level of obesity as at 2002 (somewhere between 21%-23%) - this stunned me to be honest as the US is the country that is most often referred to as the fat-nation. I guess we have to count the UK as one of those too!
ReplyVery happy to have 'run across' this site. Congratulations on it! About the US/UK comparison - this is no wonder, really. Whatever is going on in the US (good or bad) usually pours over into Europe and the UK, though not part of the Continental Europe, is the first to be 'hit' by the US waves - in almost all areas and certainly food/lifestyle. Junk foods and the trend - though now lifestyle for most - of packaged commercial/artifical foods, microwaved foods are the major contributors to obesity, ill health related to poor nourishing and these originated (as a lifestyle) in the US where quantity and not quality is the point. Most youth know no other way of life.
Oddly, countries known to be highly critical of the US in general, welcome with open arms the latest 'whatever' out of the US. Kids obsessed with their handheld computer games oblivious to their surroundings, families hardly eating together anymore (mostly thanks to the microwave), rampant obesity (once exclusively US), violence in the schools (US movie industry, computer games???), dressing like the Americans...etc etc. Sadly, all this has oozed over into Europe - Germany (where I am from) and Spain (where I live) and elsewhere. It is not globalization it is the slow but sure Americanization of the world. We are loosing our standards and succumbing to the seduction of the gimme-gimme nownow lazy way and becoming more like the US in many areas. Our priorities have shifted and taking time to truly care for ourselves and loved ones with awareness is a rarity.
I lived in the US for years and was the odd one out amongst acquainances because I actually cooked, purchased only fresh foods and was not interested in mega-diet colas and microwave living et al.
ReplySigh. Long live Slow Food. Thanks for 'listening'! ;>D