09.09.11
How do we get the top spot?
Passing article on the web on the best countries for vices.
Moldova is first in the world for power drinking, closely followed by old eastern Euro nations and other places formerly in the Soviet Union:
According to [a] WHO report, the country topping the list for annual alcohol consumption per person is Moldova. The average Moldavian consumes 18.22 liters of alcohol annually, almost three times more than the global average of 6.1 liters. Moldova is one of the poorest countries in Europe and a major wine producer. Many of its people drink cheap homemade wine, vodka and other spirits.
The English and the Germans have some work to do if they wish to burnish their reps as paralytics drinkers. It may also help to have a smaller population so that any percentage of the folks that don’t get into the spirit of the thing don’t dilute the rankings.
And DD has a tune for this.
Walkin’ for Bumwine in Pasadena
Sadly, the US is no competition. I’d assume because there’s too much fundamentalist Christian religion embedded in half the country. Teetotal is the way to be when damning everyone else while you’re in service to Jesus and Mammon.
Now — gluttony — that’s where we’ve got it going. Second only to Mexico, according to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development:
The U.S. (68%) is ranked second behind Mexico (70%) in the proportion of adults who are overweight …
As for highest rate of fatness in the completely developed western world? We own that.