Obesity Rates Soaring in Turkey and Iran

Istanbul is full of places to grab a quick bite to eat. Photo: Jennifer Hattam . In my early months in Istanbul, I had a Turkish teacher who could not get over the fact that I — an American — was not fat. “But I went to America and everyone was so big!” she would say. “You must exercise every day!” When it came time to learn the conditional tense, the shy young Lebanese boy in our class would get questions like “If you brought home a Turkish girl, what would your mother say?” I would inevitably have to answer … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Obesity Rates Soaring in Turkey and Iran

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