Moving to US can damage waistline

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Telegraph
By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
(Filed: 16/12/2004)

There is a flip side to the American dream, medical researchers have discovered. Moving to the United States can make you fat.

A study of immigrants' health shows that people born abroad are rarely obese until they have lived in America for 10 years or more, and succumbed to its car-driving, burger-guzzling culture.

Only eight per cent of immigrants who had lived in the country for less than a year were obese, but that jumped to 19 per cent after 15 years. The figure compared with 22 per cent of American-born residents surveyed.

"The longer you live here, the more likely you are to be obese," USA Today was told by Dr Mita Sanghavi Goel, of Northwest University, Illinois, who led the study.

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[AllyCat]

1. Yeah I know. I live in Wisconsin

Never seen so many obese people in my life. It's not so bad until they insist on wearing thongs that show over the jeans and under the waistline "roll".

[Ellen Forradalom]

3. Oh yes, they do run large there

I love shopping at Mills Fleet Farm, but I've noticed that stock little in my size (8) and a lot in size 16 and up.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. dont i know that!!!

my waist went from 24 to 28 in year!

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. Minor correction

You can't guzzle solids. Here we munch burgers and guzzle beer.