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The Netherlands is a global diet leader

The Netherlands is a global diet leader

No fewer than three quarters of the Dutch are in the eternal fight with the excess kilos by going on a diet. According to a global obesity survey by Reader's Digest .

Finland takes the cake: more than eight in ten inhabitants there at least once on a diet been. The Netherlands finishes in second place. Incidentally, our diet mania rages slightly more violently among the women (82 percent) than the men. (64 percent).

Another striking result:one in three Dutch people thinks their partner is too fat † While their other half is usually not aware of this.