World's fattest countries

[Luddly Neddite]

World's Fattest Countries - Forbes

No matter how you tip the scales, Americans are getter wider every year. What’s worse is that many nations are following suit.

The U.S. weighs in at No. 9, with 74.1% of those over 15 years old considered overweight. But given that its population is nearly 20,000 times that of Nauru, clearly the U.S.’s size belies it rank.

Experts say it is not surprising that people across the globe are increasingly becoming overweight. They blame urbanization and the influx of Western ways of life including myriad fast food choices, little exercise and stressful jobs.

“Due to urbanization, more people are living in more dense environments, in cities where they are removed from traditional food sources and dependent on an industrial food supply,” says Neville Rigby, director of policy and public affairs for the International Association for the Study of Obesity. Modernization is causing countries with small populations and few resources to depend on imported, often over-processed food. “The Western diet overwhelms, and many people are not genetically engineered to cope with this,” says Rigby.

Countries Transformed

This change in lifestyle is most evident in the South Pacific. On the list of “fattest” countries, eight of the top 10 are in the Pacific region.

The US isn't the fattest but if we work at it, we can become #1.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I'm sure you've helped tip the scales against us.

 

[Tank]

 

[Zander]

If we are to be Number 1, we really need immigration reform....

 

[kiwiman127]

I love Forbes' lists. They do a lot of them and they are always interesting and well done.

I'm with the assessment that it's the western lifestyle and diet and commercialism. I don't think one could blame America for the stressful job scenario or their inactivity, those seeds were planted by Japan. Japan has long been known for their job environment and just where does all our technology that contributes to us being couch potatoes come from? The Japanese!
Boo Japan!

 

[Sunshine]

Pacific islanders have always been obese. They believe the fatter the woman is, the more desirable she is. In the past, in Asia a fat wife was much to be desired. She reflected to the community at large that her husband was successful if his wife could eat herself to that size. I didn't see any obese people in China, but the Chinese who were invited to the dinners we had would fill their plates with desserts and that is all they would eat for that meal. I got the feeling they didn't have a lot of sweets on a daily basis, except for maybe their stick rice.

Too many people live on fast food. And they will pay the price. So will the rest of the country. Low income people also tend to be obese. They don't make good food choices and end up trading nutrition for empty calories.

There was a woman in this area, an extension service employee, who did a lot of teaching about food and the cost of food. She taught low income people how to make their food dollar go farther, and how to make their diets more healthy. We, here in the south, like our biscuits. She had recipes for making a lot of 'instant' things. She had a recipe for biscuits that you made up in bulk and used it like Bisquick. I used to have that recipe but if I do, I couldn't put my hands on it. She taught how to stock up when there were sales, which items could be stocked, and which could not because of being perishable. In the summer she had 'food camp' for the children. She would teach the children healthy food choices, how to read labels, and how to expend energy to use the calories. No idea if this is still going on, but the children at those camps really loved it.

To just hand someone money and let them spend it carte blanche on whatever is 'edible' just because it is edible is really poor judgment on the part of our government. I also think it is unconscionable for the government to have to pay for the diabetes and other problems that are caused by those poor food choices.

Just for the hell of it, I have kept up with what I have spent on food this month, and I could definitely live on the food allowance the government gives people. In fact, a lot of the things I bought are still in the freezer of my refrigerator, and I may not have to make anything but the weekly perishable run for another month.

 

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[Luddly Neddite]

I love Forbes' lists. They do a lot of them and they are always interesting and well done.

I'm with the assessment that it's the western lifestyle and diet and commercialism. I don't think one could blame America for the stressful job scenario or their inactivity, those seeds were planted by Japan. Japan has long been known for their job environment and just where does all our technology that contributes to us being couch potatoes come from? The Japanese!
Boo Japan!

I wouldn't "boo" Japan but you're right about the terrible effects of western diet. The connection between our crap diet and diabetes, heart disease, cancer, obesity, liver and kidney disease.

OTOH, for those who have an income and are able to shop at a regular grocery store, the choice to be sick and fat or slender and healthy is theirs.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I love Forbes' lists. They do a lot of them and they are always interesting and well done.

I'm with the assessment that it's the western lifestyle and diet and commercialism. I don't think one could blame America for the stressful job scenario or their inactivity, those seeds were planted by Japan. Japan has long been known for their job environment and just where does all our technology that contributes to us being couch potatoes come from? The Japanese!
Boo Japan!

Yet the Japanese don't have an obesity epidemic like the west does.

 

[Warrior102]

If this board counts, I nominate BDBoob-job

 

[Warrior102]

Some of our "minorities" should lay off the fried chicken.

 

[Warrior102]

I love Forbes' lists. They do a lot of them and they are always interesting and well done.

I'm with the assessment that it's the western lifestyle and diet and commercialism. I don't think one could blame America for the stressful job scenario or their inactivity, those seeds were planted by Japan. Japan has long been known for their job environment and just where does all our technology that contributes to us being couch potatoes come from? The Japanese!
Boo Japan!

Yet the Japanese don't have an obesity epidemic like the west does.

Racist bitch

 

[kiwiman127]

I love Forbes' lists. They do a lot of them and they are always interesting and well done.

I'm with the assessment that it's the western lifestyle and diet and commercialism. I don't think one could blame America for the stressful job scenario or their inactivity, those seeds were planted by Japan. Japan has long been known for their job environment and just where does all our technology that contributes to us being couch potatoes come from? The Japanese!
Boo Japan!

Yet the Japanese don't have an obesity epidemic like the west does.

That's because they have healthy diet.

 

[Toro]

I see A LOT of fat white people in American airports.

Come to think of it, I could stand to lose 20-25 pounds.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

I love Forbes' lists. They do a lot of them and they are always interesting and well done.

I'm with the assessment that it's the western lifestyle and diet and commercialism. I don't think one could blame America for the stressful job scenario or their inactivity, those seeds were planted by Japan. Japan has long been known for their job environment and just where does all our technology that contributes to us being couch potatoes come from? The Japanese!
Boo Japan!

Yet the Japanese don't have an obesity epidemic like the west does.

That's because they have healthy diet.

Every culture who adopts the diet of rich and stupid America pays for it with their health.

Japan is getting fatter and sicker.

 

[Sunshine]

Yet the Japanese don't have an obesity epidemic like the west does.

That's because they have healthy diet.

Every culture who adopts the diet of rich and stupid America pays for it with their health.

Japan is getting fatter and sicker.

China certainly doesn't eat American, but one concern their doctors had when we visited was the blood pressure issue. Their food is equally as salty and fatty as ours. Just because it isn't fried chicken and biscuits doesn't man they can't make it unhealthy. They are not as obese as Americans likely because so many of them rely on the bicycle as their mode of transportation and the high rises have only stairs. Still, the prevalence of hypertension is increasing there. The air is awful too. Far worse than ours because of our emission standards. There are a lot of lung problems there.

CONCLUSIONS:

The prevalence of hypertension in China is increasing. The trend of an increase in prevalence is striking in young people and rural populations. Hypertension awareness, treatment, and control are poor. Public health efforts for further improving awareness and enhancing effective control are urgently needed in China, especially in emerging populations.

Prevalence of hypertension in china: a cross-sectio... [PLoS One. 2013] - PubMed - NCBI

Today the air pollution was so thick in Harbin, in northern China, that visibility was reduced to fewer than 33 feet in some parts of the city. In response to the conditions -- which are equivalent to levels that exceed “hazardous” on the air-pollution measurement system used by the U.S. State Department in major Chinese cities -- Harbin shut down some schools, canceled flights and sent out relevant officials to stop polluting behavior.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-21/is-breathing-in-china-as-bad-as-smoking-.html

Americans who have never been anywhere are far too quick to criticize the US while assuming that other places in the world are wonderful healthy places to live, breathe, and eat. And they are just not. And FWIW, WE are not causing the pollution problem in China. THEY are causing it themselves with coal burning and lack of emission standards.

 

[MonaGonna]

I love Forbes' lists. They do a lot of them and they are always interesting and well done.

I'm with the assessment that it's the western lifestyle and diet and commercialism. I don't think one could blame America for the stressful job scenario or their inactivity, those seeds were planted by Japan. Japan has long been known for their job environment and just where does all our technology that contributes to us being couch potatoes come from? The Japanese!
Boo Japan!

Yet the Japanese don't have an obesity epidemic like the west does.

Who knows? Maybe the Nips will start to make their midget cars bigger.

 

[Sunshine]

Yet the Japanese don't have an obesity epidemic like the west does.

That's because they have healthy diet.

Every culture who adopts the diet of rich and stupid America pays for it with their health.

Japan is getting fatter and sicker.

Other countries are perfectly capable of making their food unhealthy without 'adopting' the American diet. I have been and I have seen.

 

[Sunshine]

I love Forbes' lists. They do a lot of them and they are always interesting and well done.

I'm with the assessment that it's the western lifestyle and diet and commercialism. I don't think one could blame America for the stressful job scenario or their inactivity, those seeds were planted by Japan. Japan has long been known for their job environment and just where does all our technology that contributes to us being couch potatoes come from? The Japanese!
Boo Japan!

Yet the Japanese don't have an obesity epidemic like the west does.

Who knows? Maybe the Nips will start to make their midget cars bigger.

Is Breathing in China as Bad as Smoking? - Bloomberg

Why Is the Obesity Rate So Low in Japan and High in the U.S.? Some Possible Economic Explanations

If we did not make as much junk food as they can eat available to our poor, or if we made them accountable for their purchases with the American tax dollar, there are people posting on this thread who would shit a squealing worm.

 

[DGS49]

If there is any doubt in your mind about America's collective obesity, visit Europe. 90% of the fat people you see there are American tourists. Europeans also illustrate the fact that you don't have to be beautiful to look good. If you are an appropriate weight for your height, are well groomed, and wear clothing that fits properly, most people can be reasonably attractive regardless of what God gave them in the way of natural beauty.

I personally am the perfect weight for someone about 6 inches taller than I am. But no matter what I do I can't make myself any taller.