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0 pointscollyw9y ago0 comments

Thats an interesting point, but it would be interesting to see it compared by regions. Southern Europe generally eats a lot healthier than Northern Europe.

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erl9y ago· 2 in thread

I am not sure that this is true. Many countries in northern Europe such as Iceland, Sweden, and Norway eat quite healthy.

Using body mass index as a (arguably quite bad) proxy for a healthy diet we find [0] that many of the southern countries such as Spain, Greece and Portugal are more overweight than many countries farther north.

[0] http://apps.who.int/bmi/index.jsp

collywOP9y ago

Sure, thats why I said generally. The UK and Germany don't have especially healthy diets in my opinion and have a lot more people than the Scandanavian countries that you mentioned.

erl9y ago

Agreed. However, Germany is typically not regarded as a part of Northern Europe. Although that can be argued since there is no formal definition if Northern Europe.

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