% obesity by country

wow we realy do have the highest

ummmm.....yes we do lol

austraila has less than usa

I wish Brits would stop picking on the Americans about the stats. We're not too far behind them.

I wish Brits would stop picking on the Americans about the stats. We're not too far behind them.

on the other hand, bear in mind that American figures, like the British ones, are measured, not self-reported like most countries (see comments on the table). This means that the numbers of most other countries are underestimated.

we must be fat

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unbelievable!!!

yay hungary!.. good I hope all these americans kill themselves anyway.. the world will be a better place without them

actually, i wonder how much the u.s. government has earmarked to spend on anti-obesity campaigns nowadays. i've seen more and more advertisements and public health pamphlets warning about childhood obesity and health problems later in life.

Not to get too political here (!?), but I think that from both a public health and a social sciences perspective, a lean populace is a harder-to-control populace. It could very well be argued, from a psychological standpoint, that it is in a government's best interest to have a well-fed, or even largely obese, citizenry. I'd love to see a graph comparing civil unrest by country to obesity rate by country.

that would be good. plus the amount of tv watched. and perhaps what type of tv - sports? reality shows? keep people fat & mildly amused, not sure what kind of political life the general populace has in those conditions. reminds me - i read during the last world cup - when there were countries like somalia prohibiting it - that there were talk of plans to install tvs in villages in iraq and other places as a way to suck people (esp young men) into watching televised football (soccer) as a way to keep them out of terrorist training camps.

Modern day bread and circus (s/bread/prepackaged_food && s/circus/tv). :(

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