Most overweight nations: OECD report
source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/25/worlds-highest-obesity-ra_n_738110.html
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The report, released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), says that "soaring obesity rates make the US the fattest country in the OECD." More alarmingly, the problem of obesity in the U.S. is not limited to adults: America also has the highest rate of child obesity among developed nations.
America, of course, is not alone among OECD nations in the struggle to deal with weight issues. In almost half of OECD countries, 50 percent or more of the population is now classified as overweight. Meanwhile, rates for obesity have doubled and even tripled in certain countries since 1980. Most tellingly, before 1980, the report states, rates of obesity in OECD countries were generally below 10 percent.
See which OECD nations are the world's most overweight in the slideshow below. (Note: The data in the slideshow represents the percent of the adult population that is overweight. The OECD breaks out different numbers for the percent that is obese. You can read the full OECD report here:
http://www.oecd.org/document/31/0,3343,en_2649_33929_45999775_1_1_1_37407,00.htm...
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judiestar
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I think its cuz of all those "I'm lovin it" McDonalds commercials. Remember, if the magic talking picture box says it, then its true!!!
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judiestar
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JanforGore
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The U.S is second behind Mexico. I believe it is in great part now the proliferation of pesticides sprayed on food that is making people obese over time because it slows down the detoxification process of the liver. That and the fact that Mexico has now also been invaded by Monsanto BT corn which has contaminated the wild corn varieties of Mexico. The corrolation between pesticides and obesity should be much more thoroughly investigated as well as the reaction in the gut to the bacteria used in BT corn to invade its cells. But since the FDA gave Monsanto a free ride on adequate testing to make the world their petrie dish, we don't know for sure what it is now doing to people who eat it. Of course there are other factors for certain people such as a sedantary lifestyle, but the rates and expansion of obesity in the world now would suggest to me that there is another overriding factor contributing to it. The corporate food system is slowly killing us. This is why we will never have an adequate healthcare policy in this country until we thoroughly revamp our environmental and food policy.
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JanforGore
