Seems the whole world is getting fat! In Thailand where I live there has been a massive increase in fat kids. I put it down to uneducated parents that see no harm in feeding their kids garbage from the 711 and other fast food chains - 1 generation ago these crappy outlets didn't exist in the huge numbers they do today. I see school kids eating this crap every day.
Here in Australia and I guess in UK we dont have the fine food culture of say France or Italy so people just eat in a very "fast food" style. Sadly cheap food is fat food and fatness is most noticeable in the lower end of the socio economic scale.
Glad to hear my sentiments are agreed with @talesfrmthecrypt - i think we would get along just fine!