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The World Health Organization has recently released the
results of health surveys taken between 2000 and 2008 on
world obesity, and the news isn't pretty.

Since obesity rates can be an indicator of a nation's
nutritional trends, health and culture, we thought it might
be useful information for the expat to know. Here are the 10
fattest countries of the last decade:

(1) American Samoa, 93.5% (of the population that is overweight)

It's a staggering number. Many Pacific Island nations have
had trouble with weight in modern times mostly because they
have abandoned their traditional foods for cheap, easily
attained processed foods from the West. Perhaps no other
Pacific Island has had such access to these habits as
American Samoa.

(2) Kiribati, 81.5%

Like American Samoa, Kiribati has been flooded with
processed foods like Spam and mutton flaps (fatty sheep
scraps), often sold at lower prices than native food.


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(3) U.S.A., 66.7%

Well, the U.S.A. doesn't top the list, but it's close, and
it falls behind only a small islands nation and one of its
own unincorporated territories. The United States of
Processed food, high fructose corn syrup and fast food has
been high on this list over the last half century.

(4) Germany, 66.5%

The fattest country in Europe no doubt owes their portly
woes to lots of beer, fatty foods and inactivity.

(5) Egypt, 66%

Obesity among Egyptian women is particularly high, often
attributed to cultural taboos on women exercising or playing
sports.

(6) Bosnia-Herzegovina, 62.9%

Once considered a problem only in high-income countries,
obesity is dramatically on the rise in low- and
middle-income countries like Bosnia-Herzegovina, where
smoking, drinking and eating unhealthy foods spiked during
the war that ravaged the country from 1992 to 1995.

(7) New Zealand, 62.7%

Obesity is a growing concern for New Zealand. While its
native Maori have struggled with weight due to loss of
traditional culture like other Pacific Islanders- they are
mostly just a scapegoat. New Zealand's entire population is
getting fatter at a rapidly increased rate.

(8) Israel, 61.9%

In the past 30 years, the number of obese Israelis has
tripled, evidence the country is truly part of the Western
world.

(9) Croatia, 61.4%

Croatia, where cardiovascular disease is the leading cause
of death, is also a victim of the globalization of the food
market, which tends to suppress traditional diets as cheaper
processed foods from the U.S. and Europe flood store
shelves.

(10) United Kingdom, 61%

A recent survey ranked Brits among the bottom third of
European nations in physical exercise, leading Health
Secretary Andy Burnham to comment, "We're really in danger
of being known as the best in the world for watching sport,
but one of the worst for getting out there and doing it for
ourselves."

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Source: Global Post

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Elijah
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