Big Macs and SUVs result in the sad statistic that around half of Americans are overweight. Many American men who have married Russian women say that the Russkaya gals remind them of American women from the 50s and 60s - slim and well-groomed.

If you want to see what walking everywhere does for your legs, take a gander at the gams on some of the Slav beauties, and then go out to your favorite people-watching spot and try to find an American women with a similarly great seat of pins.

'Dunno, but that might be one reason many American men shop the mail-order bride pages from Russia.

For their part, the Russian gals are probably looking to escape a situation where many Russian men, out of dispair, turn to the vodka bottle.

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