"Obesity Rates Soaring in Turkey and Iran
by Jennifer Hattam, Istanbul, Turkey on 10.20.10
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 things like "If you got fat, would you have plastic surgery?" Increasingly, though, it seems Turks won't have to look outside their own country to find plentiful examples of obesity."
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