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Eat, pray, lard

SCOTTISH Government statisticians have produced data on health behaviour broken down by religious and ethnic groups.

This is not to be confused with the number of the population broken down by age and sex, which is quite a lot.

The headline-writers have focused on the fact that members of the Church of Scotland are most likely to be obese at 30%. Though to be fair, adherents of the Kirk are by one or two percentage points only a short, fat neck ahead of Catholics and Muslims.

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