Info-map on obesity
Feb. 27th, 2016 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nairiporterYou might think the U.S. is the most obese nation in the world - but if you do, you are wrong.
How fat is YOUR country?
- The Pacific Islands, east of Australia, top the list of countries with the highest percentage of their populations obese.
- Experts have blamed the soaring obesity rates on nations colonising the islands and introducing Western diets.
- British, American and French colonisers tried to 'civilise' the nations' eating habits after the Second World War.
- Their fishing and farming industries died out and the countries became reliant on foreign imports like rice and sugar.
- Scale shows epidemic of fatness, with high levels of obesity across most of Europe, the Middle East and the U.S.
How fat is YOUR country?
- The Pacific Islands, east of Australia, top the list of countries with the highest percentage of their populations obese.
- Experts have blamed the soaring obesity rates on nations colonising the islands and introducing Western diets.
- British, American and French colonisers tried to 'civilise' the nations' eating habits after the Second World War.
- Their fishing and farming industries died out and the countries became reliant on foreign imports like rice and sugar.
- Scale shows epidemic of fatness, with high levels of obesity across most of Europe, the Middle East and the U.S.
