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:Rather contrary to the rather limited 'studies' that this article bases its claims off, I think it'd be most logical to conclude that atheism is inversely proportional to obesity, when you consider the USA has one of the highest (if not the highest) obesity rates in the Western world, and also happens to be the most religious.

:Rather contrary to the rather limited 'studies' that this article bases its claims off, I think it'd be most logical to conclude that atheism is inversely proportional to obesity, when you consider the USA has one of the highest (if not the highest) obesity rates in the Western world, and also happens to be the most religious.

Where do most Christians reside in the world? The East or the West? Are people in the East thinner? Do you have any large studies comparable to the Gallup study in size which isolate the religious variable in relation to health habits and/or obesity? More importantly, do you have any large studies comparable to the Gallup study in size which isolates the variable of religiousness in relation to health habits and/or obesity and measures the "Very religious". The reason I ask this question is that we know the major variables of income, education and race affect how people eat/exercise.   

Where do most Christians reside in the world? The East or the West? Are people in the East thinner? Do you have any large studies comparable to the Gallup study in size which isolate the religious variable in relation to health habits and/or obesity? More importantly, do you have any large studies comparable to the Gallup study in size which isolates the variable of religiousness in relation to health habits and/or obesity and measures the "Very religious". The reason I ask these questions is that we know the major variables of income, education and race affect how people eat/exercise.   

In addition, we know that America is the birth place of large scale automobile manufacturing ([[Henry Ford]] and Ford Motor Company) plus has had federal/state public policy pushing the interstate highways and suburbia (Also, America had white flight out of the cities and into the suburbs).[http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/roads/TRANSCRIPT.html] So it comes as no big surprise that America has a very automobile centered culture and has less of a bicycle/walking culture than many Western nations (bike lanes and bike paths, etc).  Of course, this has a significant negative impact on the amount of exercise in America and adds to obesity.[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19164816][http://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/pucher/jpah08.pdf]  

In addition, we know that America is the birth place of large scale automobile manufacturing ([[Henry Ford]] and Ford Motor Company) plus has had federal/state public policy pushing the interstate highways and suburbia (Also, America had white flight out of the cities and into the suburbs).[http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/roads/TRANSCRIPT.html] So it comes as no big surprise that America has a very automobile centered culture and has less of a bicycle/walking culture than many Western nations (bike lanes and bike paths, etc).  Of course, this has a significant negative impact on the amount of exercise in America and adds to obesity.[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19164816][http://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/pucher/jpah08.pdf]  

In short, your analysis was far too simplistic and suffered as a result. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 19:53, 31 March 2012 (EDT)

In short, your analysis was far too simplistic and suffered as a result. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 19:53, 31 March 2012 (EDT)

:::By the way, thanks for reminding me about this article. I just added [http://conservapedia.com/File:Leonid_Brezhnev.jpg another picture] to the [[Atheism and obesity]] article. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 17:29, 1 April 2012 (EDT)

:::By the way, thanks for reminding me about this article. I just added [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8106603.stm another picture citation] to the [[Atheism and obesity]] article. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 17:29, 1 April 2012 (EDT)

::::Addendum: I added a few pictures that further illustrate the issue of atheism and obesity and/or the problems associated with atheist obesity. For example, atheist [[PZ Myers]]' difficulty ascending and descending the dinosaur model at the [[Creation Museum]] due to the fact that he was overweight and out of shape.[http://conservapedia.com/Atheism_and_obesity#PZ_Myers.27_visit_to_the_Creation_Museum] [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 21:06, 1 April 2012 (EDT)