Moving to U.S. Can Cause Weight Gain Daily

“A study of immigrants’ health shows that people born abroad are rarely obese until they have lived in America for 10 years or more, and succumbed to its car-driving, burger-guzzling culture. Only 8 percent of immigrants who had lived in the country for less than a year were obese, but that jumped to 19 percent after 15 years. The figure compared with 22 percent of American-born residents surveyed.”

Telegraph (London), Dec. 16, 2004