Man, it's been a while since I've seen a obese European. And it's not like we are health obsessed, hardly. All of my friends love to eat(though one of them eats only chips and coffeine), but move so much around that fat is hardly gained. I lived in a folk high school for nine months and every meal was feast, if the food was low cal, the dessert wasn't and vice versa, and I gained weight, ten kilos or so. Now that it's over, I eat nothing near as much and started running out of the heck of it. I had forgotten how good a workout felt.
That said, Finland has been a country that takes the health of their young very seriously ever since post war coma. We don't haven't had generations of youth that lack purpose in life besides watching tv for a while, actually ever, even though this and the last generation has often been associated as not having any ideals or desired, airheaded and generally a "lost generation". Heh, I guess you could say that once you learn to hate your parents, you don't hang around home enough to watch tv and get fat.
All in all, we might differ a lot from elsewhere Europe, or "Them", but I think Europe is generally of the mind(with the exception of Britain, sorry guys) that fat is bad.