Last Call For Largeness
Yay America!
We're no longer the fattest developed nation on Earth!
According to a new report from the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, the United States is no longer the world's fattest developed nation―Mexico is.
Nearly a third of Mexican adults (32.8 percent) are considered
obese—people aged 20 and older whose body mass index (BMI) is 30 and
above. That edges out the United States, where 31.8 percent of American
adults are considered obese.
Syria at 31.6 percent, is the third fattest among developed
countries, while Venezuela and Libya are tied for fourth at 30.8
percent.
Mexico's urban lifestyle and rising income levels coupled with
malnourishment among the country's poor have helped it claim this
unhealthy title.
“The same people who are malnourished are the ones who are becoming
obese,” Abelardo Avila, a physician with Mexico's National Nutrition
Institute, told the Global Post.
“In the poor classes we have obese parents and malnourished children.
The worst thing is the children are becoming programmed for obesity.
It's a very serious epidemic.”
Diabetes kills an estimated 70,000 people a year in Mexico—"or
roughly equal to the deaths authorities say are caused by more than six
years of the country's gangland wars," the Post noted.
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Woohoo! 'MURICA.
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