Obesity From a World Perspective

Being that I have been having a bit of aobesitytheme this week I thought it would bequite interesting to see which nations and or countries, have a biggestobesityproblems, so with that in mind I decided to do some research and see what I could find, and came across a list that showed the percentage of people, in a country who were obese.

This will give a very overall clear picture of exactly how big a problem this has become worldwide not just in our country but everywhere. Eating too much food has quite literally become a global phenomenon. According to what this site says where this information came from there are now 1.6 billion obese adults worldwide

Here is the list of the world’s fattest countries.

1.    Nauru                               94.5 percent

2.    Micronesia                        91.1 percent

3.    Cook Islands                     90.9 percent

4.    Tonga                               90.8 percent

5.    Niue                                  81.7 percent

6.    Samoa                               80.4 percent

7.    Palau                                 78.4 percent

8.    Kuwait                              74.2 percent

9.     United States                   74.1 percent

10.    Kiribati                            73.6 percent

11.    Dominica                       71 percent

12.    Barbados                       69.7 percent

13.    Argentina                     69.4 percent

14.    Egypt                            69.4 percent

15.    Malta                            68.7 percent

16.    Greece                         68.5 percent

17.    New Zealand                68.4 percent

18.    United Arab Emirates   68.3 percent

19.    Mexico                         68.1 percent

20.    Trinidad and Tobago   67.9 percent

21.    Australia                     67.4 percent

22.    Belarus                        68.8 percent

23.    Chile                           65.3 percent

24.    Venezuela                   65.2 percent

25.    Seychelles                   64.6 percent

26.    Bahrain                       64.1percent

27.    Andorra                      63.8 percent

28.    United Kingdom         63.8 percent

29.    Saudi Arabia              63.5 percent

30.    Monaco                     62.4 percent

31.    Bolivia                       62.2 percent

32.    San Marino                62.1 percent

33.    Guatemala                61.2 percent

34.    Mongolia                  61.2 percent

35.    Canada                     61.1 percent

36.    Quatar                      61 percent

37.    Uruguay                   60.9 percent

38.    Jordan                      60.5 percent

39.    Bahamas                  60.4 percent

40.    Iceland                    60.4 percent

41.    Nicaragua                60.4 percent

42.    Cuba                       60.1 percent

43.    Germany                 60.1 percent

44.    Brunei Darussalam 59.8 percent

45.    Slovenia                 59.8 percent

46.    Peru                       59.6 percent

47.    Vanuatu                 59.6 percent

48.    Finland                  58.7 percent

49.    Jamaica                 57.4 percent

50.    Israel                    57.3 percent

I suppose when you look at this list and it’s no great surprise that the United States of America is in the top 10, and no great surprise that we number 28 on the list. Surprisingly enough China is in at 148 and has a score of 28.9 percent which is very low, Japan is even lower their score is 22.6 percent.

And interestingly enough India is at 176 and has a score of 16 percent.

Is it feasible to say that affluence is the cause of this it doesn’t seem so necessarily, the world over it just seems we have either good or poor eating habits which ever way you look at it, in this country we have a tendency to binge drink which is something which is on the increase.

Japan has been a very affluent society for a very long time now, but as we can see from the list their rates ofobesityare very low, I dare say they have McDonalds, and take-away establishments much like every other country does.

But they could possibly have tighter restrictions on exactly how many there are in the country. If the thing about this is really we ultimately are in charge of what we eat, so if we becomefatand or overweight then there is nobody to blame except ourselves. Which will always be the case I’m afraid.

ReferencesForbes Worlds Fattest Countries