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::::::::The overwhelmingly protestant country of the United States has the first highest obesity rate in the world. You didn't cite any data in support of the proposition that atheists are more likely to be obese. The only data you cited related to the effects of obesity, which is irrelevant to which population is affected by obesity most. Please just admit this and move on. The Bible Belt, which is overwhelmingly protestant, is nonetheless the fattest region in the nation. The correlation is very clear. Causation is not. Studies of the nature I'm referring to state they don't provide insight into causation so I'm not interested in hearing your off the cuff speculations about why the Bible Belt is obese but somehow the clear correlation doesn't matter. All we can talk about is correlation, not causation. I hope you don't deny that. As to there being more protestants in the "thin Eastern World" than in the West, a) you're wrong, and b) so what? The population of India is 1,200,000,000 people in 2011 with 2.3% Christian - that's 27,600,000 people. The population of the United States alone is 311,000,000 with 51% protestant - that's 158,610,000 people. 5.75 times more protestants than in India. Just as you don't know anything about causal factors for obesity in the United States you don't know anything about causal factors for whatever you're calling thinness in the "thin Eastern World" other than what you're going to make up. Just as you're pretending it has to do with their religion, I can say that the correlation between poverty in Central Africa and South Asia is a better example of "thinness" that I would call malnourishment. 40% of people in South Asia and 51% of people in sub Saharan Africa live on less than $1.25 a day. only 2.1% of hungry people live in developed countries. Even if you're right that it is possible to determine a causal relation between religion and thinness, the example of India is a striking opposite of the United States. The US is 51% protestant (25% Catholic) and states in the protestant Bible Belt are all over 30% obese. India is 2% Christian and men are 18% obese and women are 14% obese. So even if you're right you can't draw any good conclusion from numbers like this. And I'm telling you smearing Catholics by pretending Catholicism provides a causal factor in obesity is yet another slander against the Church. Typing "friar" into google doesn't do or mean anything. Just stop it with the anti-Catholic slurs please. [[User:NKeaton|Nate]] 13:03, 19 July 2011 (EDT)

::::::::The overwhelmingly protestant country of the United States has the first highest obesity rate in the world. You didn't cite any data in support of the proposition that atheists are more likely to be obese. The only data you cited related to the effects of obesity, which is irrelevant to which population is affected by obesity most. Please just admit this and move on. The Bible Belt, which is overwhelmingly protestant, is nonetheless the fattest region in the nation. The correlation is very clear. Causation is not. Studies of the nature I'm referring to state they don't provide insight into causation so I'm not interested in hearing your off the cuff speculations about why the Bible Belt is obese but somehow the clear correlation doesn't matter. All we can talk about is correlation, not causation. I hope you don't deny that. As to there being more protestants in the "thin Eastern World" than in the West, a) you're wrong, and b) so what? The population of India is 1,200,000,000 people in 2011 with 2.3% Christian - that's 27,600,000 people. The population of the United States alone is 311,000,000 with 51% protestant - that's 158,610,000 people. 5.75 times more protestants than in India. Just as you don't know anything about causal factors for obesity in the United States you don't know anything about causal factors for whatever you're calling thinness in the "thin Eastern World" other than what you're going to make up. Just as you're pretending it has to do with their religion, I can say that the correlation between poverty in Central Africa and South Asia is a better example of "thinness" that I would call malnourishment. 40% of people in South Asia and 51% of people in sub Saharan Africa live on less than $1.25 a day. only 2.1% of hungry people live in developed countries. Even if you're right that it is possible to determine a causal relation between religion and thinness, the example of India is a striking opposite of the United States. The US is 51% protestant (25% Catholic) and states in the protestant Bible Belt are all over 30% obese. India is 2% Christian and men are 18% obese and women are 14% obese. So even if you're right you can't draw any good conclusion from numbers like this. And I'm telling you smearing Catholics by pretending Catholicism provides a causal factor in obesity is yet another slander against the Church. Typing "friar" into google doesn't do or mean anything. Just stop it with the anti-Catholic slurs please. [[User:NKeaton|Nate]] 13:03, 19 July 2011 (EDT)

::Nate, Brazil has the largest Roman Catholic population in the world and nearly half of Brazilians are overweight the trend for obesity is upwards.[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/8204625/Brazils-obesity-rate-could-match-US-by-2022.html]  It seems as though there are a lot of very big girls from Ipanema at the present time. :) Secondly, there are a number of demographic factors in Protestantism in the United States.  For example, I would think income/education play important factors in terms of obesity.  [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 13:09, 19 July 2011 (EDT)

::Nate, Brazil has the largest Roman Catholic population in the world and nearly half of Brazilians are overweight the trend for obesity is upwards.[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/8204625/Brazils-obesity-rate-could-match-US-by-2022.html]  It seems as though there are a lot of very big girls from Ipanema at the present time. :) Secondly, there are a number of demographic factors in Protestantism in the United States.  For example, I would think income/education play important factors in terms of obesity.  [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 13:09, 19 July 2011 (EDT)

::::Nate, in addition, the Bible has a anti-gluttony/obesity message. In 2001 Protestants read their Bibles a LOT more than Roman Catholics.[http://www.bibleteachingnotes.com/templates/System/details.asp?id=29183&fetch=7872] [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 13:16, 19 July 2011 (EDT)

::::Nate, in addition, the Bible has a anti-gluttony/obesity message. In 2001, Protestants read their Bibles a LOT more than Roman Catholics.[http://www.bibleteachingnotes.com/templates/System/details.asp?id=29183&fetch=7872] [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 13:16, 19 July 2011 (EDT)