Alan C. Posted October 14, 2015 Posted October 14, 2015 Report: U.S most obese in the world, fattest kids by a mile, tops for poor teen health The United States is home to the most obese population in the Americas, Asia and Europe, has the fattest kids by a wide margin and is tops in poor health for teenagers, according to the latest measure of well-being from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.. . .In the obesity chapter, the United States is put at No. 1, ahead of 33 other nations...The report shows that obesity in America has jumped since 2000 and that 35 percent of the nation is overweight. For comparison, 4 percent of Japanese and 25 percent of Canadians are obese.The U.S. also tops the list of teens report in poor health, at 22 percent.Worse, the U.S. soars over every other country in the number of obese and overweight children, at a whopping 38 percent. The next worse country is Canada, with a combined obese and overweight child population at below 25 percent.
shirgall Posted October 14, 2015 Posted October 14, 2015 That's a huge jump from the 31.8% of just a couple of years ago: Mexico takes title of "most obese" from America http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-takes-title-of-most-obese-from-america/ About 70 percent of Mexican adults are overweight, a third of them very much so. Childhood obesity tripled in a decade and about a third of teenagers are fat as well. Experts say four of every five of those heavy kids will remain so their entire lives. The FAO last month reported (PDF) Mexico has a 32.8 percent adult obesity rate -- just above America's 31.8 percent -- blaming increasingly industrialized agricultural production for a worldwide epidemic of both obesity and malnutrition. The Mexican rate may pale beside tiny, heavyweight countries like the Cook Islands, but it ranked Mexico the fattest, populous nation.
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