5 a day

[TimberWolf]

According to this table, Italy is way down the skinny league for fatness, with the UK in the top 3 fatties.

[Ignis Fatuus]

Perhaps the fat people of Walsall sit on their arses watching telly all day, and would probably die of a heart attack even if they were thin, while the fat people of Italy actually eat even more calories, but get some exercise and therefore have a cardio-respiratory system that can cope with their mass.

They do seem to get a bit of low-level exercise, for example in the offices where I worked in Milan, they would all go out for a short walk after lunch. Even if it was just an amble round the same block every day, they were insistent on it.