The World Health Organization released their latest obesity report with the rankings of obesity in various countries. Samoa has a prevalence of 93.5% of its population being obese, with the United States not far behind as number three in the world with 66.5% of its adults being overweight or obese.
Such a high percentage of obesity in the United States causes significant health problems associated with the disease. This places a strain on the health care industry and financial well being of the United States. The World Health Organization attributes the skyrocketing of obesity rates in the U.S. to the lack of health education of the new generations and unhealthy lifestyle choices.
December 02, 2009 10:11 PM EST (Updated: December 02, 2009 10:44 PM EST
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With the WHO (World Health Organization) latest obesity report, America has landed in at #3 as the worlds fattest people closely followed by Germany. There was a real outright winner in America Samoa with 93.5% of its people being overweight or Obese.
Samoa and Kiribati,(second at 81.5%) both south pacific island countries, blame the impact of people traveling overseas and bringing back food recipes and food from other countries. Since 1964 the intake of foreign food into these countries has increased by over 700% with most of this food a direct conflict to their normal traditional diet of native foods high in complex carbohydrates and low in fat, such as bananas, taro root, coconut, yams, and fish and seafood.
America by sheer population size of over 300 million people means that there are over 198 million people in the US who are overweight or obese. The sheer strain on the health system in America and the amount of taxes Americans will have to pay just to pay hospital costs of weight related health issues must surely be a major concern to Americans as they skyrocket into the biggest eating, smoking, prescription drug nation in the universe. How can any nation be economically sound when in excess of 66% of its population are obese and will have self inflicted health issues just based on their diet intake. All things aside, you cannot just laugh this off as a fast food fad, as this has to be directly attributed to lifestyle choices by individuals and the health education of generations of children. In the mid 1960′s, just 24% of Americans were overweight.
The small south pacific nations of Samoa and Kiribati are pin heads on a blanket compared to the health issues Americans and all the other countries in the top 10 have to face. All 8 other countries in the top 10, are above 61% and come in at just under 750 million people.
Top 10 list below(of population that’s overweight):
1. American Samoa, 93.5 percent
Food imports to blame
2. Kiribati, 81.5 percent
Food imports to blame
3. U.S., 66.7 percent
Health experts attribute the rise to an over-production of oil, fat and sugar by subsidizing farming and food production. Food manufacturers were paid by governments to include these products in larger quantities to support the farmers. Obesity was considered an acceptable result of this.
4. Germany, 66.5 percent
Governments are blaming the usual suspects: beer, fatty processed foods and lack of physical and sporting activities.
5. Egypt, 66 percent
Egypt blames processed food imports, which created poorer eating habits and the nations lack of sporting programs due to cultural and religious taboos
6. Bosnia-Herzegovina, 62.9 percent
WHO blames smoking, drinking and eating cheap processed foods high in calories unhealthy and low in nutritional value.
7. New Zealand, 62.7 percent
Watching television is said to be the cause rather than what they ate. Those who were overweight at the age of 26 were those who watched TV the most. Some how I think it is what they ate in front of the TV, and not the TV.
8. Israel, 61.9 percent
Obesity is highest in Arab women, and their lower level of education is to blame, so say the Israeli Government.. (If you can believe their studies)
9. Croatia, 61.4 percent
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in Croatia. They blame the globalization of the food market and the import of excessive amounts of processed foods. Croatian men are more obese than Croatian women, according to statistics.
10. United Kingdom, 61 percent
British living in low-incoming housing eating takeaways and playing computer games is said to be the blame. The UK is in the bottom 3 countries in Europe as far as physical exercise go. To combat this, the UK has just embarked on a healthy food program for schools and is spending several hundred billion dollars on sporting facilities to encourage a healthy lifestyle.
Tags: Obesity
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