Germans fatter than ever

bonn - Germans eat more vegetables and drink more mineral water and still celebrate the rolls of fat supreme. Not previously they were so thick.

According to the German scientific institute for food DGE suffers 59 percent of men and 37 percent of women aged 18 to 65 years are overweight. Especially men at the end of their working lives (three quarters) weigh too much.

In men aged 30 to 35 years, the figures are not favorable. The obese are in this category in the majority, and that goes for women aged 55 years.

Interestingly, the Germans are just more vegetables, berries and nuts to eat. they also drink more mineral water. But despite this positive trend, the percentage of overweight men increased by 8.3 percent from 1999 according to DGE. In women, 4.5 percent.

So where does all this fat come from? DGE pointing to the high-calorie snacks and drinks that today almost everywhere available for little money. In addition, people are moving less. ' We live in a society that drives us to obesity. ''