The latest American export

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America has successfully exported our entertainment, our software, and, often, our politics, but there’s a new export success story: we’ve actually managed to export our obesity! Congratulations and a free bag of Doritos all around! According to this story, the International Obesity Task Force now reports that in European countries there are more obese men than the 67 percent estimated in the U.S. Those countries include Germany (actually not all that surprising, given their general lack of interest in vegetables) and Greece (whoa! whatever happened to eating fish?).

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