Worldwide obesity has doubled since 1980, according to the Global Status Report released by the World Health Organization this week. In 2014, more than 600 million adults were obese and nearly two billion were overweight. Forty-two million children younger than five were overweight or obese in 2013.
Those numbers hardly come as news for many.
A study released last year reported similar findings. More recently, the U.K.’s Clinic Compare created a map (above) based on international obesity statistics by the CIA, which lists Pacific Island nations—American Samoa, Nauru, and Cook Islands—as the most obese countries in the world.
(The United States is 18th on the CIA’s list. But among large populations, Mexico only two years ago unseated America as the fattest country in the world.)
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015...countries-maps
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