Obesity: 'Fattest' Countries in the World (food, health, rated)

[Tiger Beer]

Fattest Countries in the World

Rank Country % Overweight or obese

1. Nauru 94.5
2. Federated States of Micronesia 91.1
3. Cook Islands 90.9
4. Tonga 90.8
5. Niue 81.7
6. Samoa 80.4
7. Palau 78.4
8. Kuwait 74.2
9. United States 74.1
10. Kiribati 73.6
11. Dominica 71.0
12. Barbados 69.7
13. Argentina 69.4
14. Egypt 69.4
15. Malta 68.7
16. Greece 68.5
17. New Zealand 68.4
18. United Arab Emirates 68.3
19. Mexico 68.1
20. Trinidad and Tobago 67.9

Source: World Health Organization.
From: Caribbean Obesity rates get wider | The Trinidad Guardian (http://test.guardian.co.tt/index.php?q=features/life/2010/07/25/caribbean-obesity-rates-get-wider-hf - broken link)

[ragnarkar]

Tropical and subtropical countries dominate the list while no East Asian or Northern European ones.. wonder why..

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Holy poop Nauru!

[CairoCanadian]

Nauru's non-economy clearly hasn't resulted in starvation.

I'm not surprised at Egypt being so high on the list inspite of the poverty. Stuffing food into each other equals love here!

[Tiger Beer]

Source: obesity | Humanosphere

Looks like there are a few European countries with 65% overweight...this map is for males....(it's the first map I found). Finland, Germany, and the UK.

This map doesn't seem consistent with the top 20 list...perhaps the females make up the difference, as I only found a male map.

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UK women are apparently the fattest in Europe (though British media always make outlandish claims like that, and they are rarely true)

[noela]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

Source: obesity | Humanosphere

Looks like there are a few European countries with 65% overweight...this map is for males....(it's the first map I found). Finland, Germany, and the UK.

This map doesn't seem consistent with the top 20 list...perhaps the females make up the difference, as I only found a male map.

Take a look (EU countries only):

[almost3am]

What was this comment in the article, are black americans way more obese than the average non-black american? By the way, I just back from Brazil again (6th time) and it seemed there are way more obese people there today than before. Maybe it was just where I was or that I just noticed it now...

"This rate has surpassed that of the United States, even the rates for Black Americans, the consultant added."

[Tiger Beer]

Originally Posted by noela

Take a look (EU countries only):

Czech Republic is a surprise. It's not one I think of to be among the fattest of Europe.

[noela]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

Czech Republic is a surprise. It's not one I think of to be among the fattest of Europe.

True.

And Greek men aren't doing their country any favour!