Saturday, February 27, 2010

Going for Gold

"It included calories per day determined from the 2009 Statistical Yearbook from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; and television viewing, taken from combined data from the OECD Society at a Glance 2009 and OECD Communications Outlook 2009.
"Also used as a measure: a country’s aversion to sports, as tracked by the OECD Society at a Glance 2009; and Internet usage, with average hours per capita for December 2009 from data provided by ComScore."

Debra Black in The Toronto Star reports that the United States is the winner of the "Couch Potato Olympics," according to The Daily Beast.

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