I just wrote a post about healthiest countries on earth and was happy to find that I was associated with many of them. Then I decided to look for the fattest and thus the least healthy countries (not in lifestyle, Yemen, Syria, Sudan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Libya etc would win those prizes, but in obesity induced by injudiciously bad eating habits of industrialized food)
To my surprise, i am also associated with or visit regularly many of the countries listed.
They can be grouped in this way:
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain . all oil rich and all saturated with bad quality American or American style food.
Of course the mother of the fatso countries: America itself
Mexico like Porfirio Diaz said: So far away from God but so close to the USA
If you draw a graph of Obesity in Mexico against the distance from the border, you would see an interesting connection, the further away you are away from the Yanquis, the thinner you may remain.
Egypt in the list was a surprise. South Africa is a time bomb when it comes to ill health AIDS and Diabetes..
To my surprise, i am also associated with or visit regularly many of the countries listed.
They can be grouped in this way:
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain . all oil rich and all saturated with bad quality American or American style food.
Of course the mother of the fatso countries: America itself
Mexico like Porfirio Diaz said: So far away from God but so close to the USA
If you draw a graph of Obesity in Mexico against the distance from the border, you would see an interesting connection, the further away you are away from the Yanquis, the thinner you may remain.
Egypt in the list was a surprise. South Africa is a time bomb when it comes to ill health AIDS and Diabetes..
Belize is also in the list..
But many countries in the Caribbean tip their scales to the right .. Bahamas Barbados ..Malaysia is not far behind..
It is also an anthropological explanation that the majority of the top ten do not have responsible governments.. or shall we say have obesogenic governments when you think that stress can also cause obesity!
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2019/02/fattest-countries-in-world.html