A normal BMI is Despite its popularity, BMI is widely considered to be a flawed metric. It fails to consider vital influencing factors such as body type, gender, age, and bone density. Moreover, BMI can't distinguish between muscle and fat. This can lead to clearly inaccurate results, particularly in athletes. For example, professional wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin in his prime was a heavily muscled picture of physical fitness—but his 6'2" height and lb kg weight gave him a BMI of Because of results such as these, BMI is a fairly imprecise determiner of whether or not a given person is overweight.
However, because of its global ubiquity, it remains the best currently available metric to use for country-to-country comparisons. Diet is primarily to blame, with Americans receiving mixed messages about what they should be eating and how much of it. Faced with mouth-watering advertisements served alongside campaigns promoting daily physical activity and proper nutrition, many Americans opt for fast, cheap, and filling options such as processed packaged food, fast food, and larger portions.
This often leads to a diet rich in fat, calories, and sodium the "butter, sugar, salt" trifecta and low in vitamins and nutrients. For a full list of the world's countries and their obesity rates and average BMIs, see the table below. Obesity Rates By Country BMI explained The most commonly used method of measuring obesity is the Body Mass Index, or BMI, which divides a person's weight in kilograms by their height in meters squared. Obesity by country Obesity rates vary significantly by country as a result of different lifestyles and diets.
Moving on to the other end of the spectrum Here are the 10 countries with the highest obesity rates: Nauru In this article we take a look at the 25 most obese countries in the world. Click to skip ahead and jump to the 10 most obese countries in the world.
We might be in the middle of a life changing and history defining pandemic, which has cost more than a million lives and has resulted in the infection of over 32 million people at least. It has ruined economies and cost the livelihoods of tens of millions of people across the world.
Even in the US alone, over 40 million filed for unemployment, though as businesses start opening back up, the number is going down as more businesses are hiring. In the midst of what has been one of the most incredible and unbelievable year in recent memory, an epidemic which has been brewing for years if not the last few decades, has slipped in the back and isn't facing as much attention as it should be.
I am of course talking about the global obesity epidemic, which should ideally be something the world is facing head on, as its effects are extremely visible. However, the epidemic not only doesn't show any signs of slowing down, it actually seems to be accelerating at an alarming rate. Obesity tends to affect all races and cultures, genders and ages. It doesn't discriminate at all, which is why it is even more dangerous. Further, obesity doesn't affect just underdeveloped countries, but also developed countries.
In fact America is one of the 11 fattest countries in the world. Obesity is truly a global problem affecting hundreds of millions of people around the world. In , we had million obese adults and 18 million children under the age of 5 who were deemed overweight, which seems like a lot, but compared to today, seems like a dream. In , there were million people who were obese, while more than 1. Just focus on that statistic here.
Nearly every second adult across the entire globe is overweight. Want to hear another damning statistic? The majority of the world's population lives in countries where more people die of conditions related to being overweight rather than being underweight.
In , 38 million children under the age of 5 were overweight, while for the age group , an incredible million children were overweight. The saddest thing about all of this?
Obesity is preventable. So what causes obesity and why has there been such a massive increase recently? The basic reason behind obesity is simply consuming more calories than you expend. Nowadays, fatty foods are all the rage and fast food has taken over the world.
These foods have high fat and sugar, and result in the consumption of a lot more calories and bad fats than you should be taking. Low levels of physical activity and poor diet has resulted in obesity levels of over 70 percent among Tokelauans, with more than 50 percent of the population declaring themselves as smokers. Budget constraints mean there is no healthcare training on the island of Tokelau, and little funding goes toward physical health improvement.
A report found more than 91 percent of residents were not eating sufficient amounts of fruit and vegetables while a further 42 percent were significantly lacking in daily physical exercise. An estimated The Cook Islands MInistry of Health cited numerous behavioural, socio-economic and environmental factors as the causes of such alarming obesity levels, and announced plans to improve education programmes about nutrition in schools.
Researchers have often claimed governments across the South Pacific to be traditionally reluctant to invest in raising awareness about health and dietary issues. An unincorporated US territory in the idyllic waters of the South Pacific, a staggering American Samoa is in the grip of a malnutrition epidemic, with much of the population relying on processed, low quality foods imported from the US for sustenance.
A lack of health education is also a contributing factor in the rise of overweight, obesity and chronic disease on the island territory. Some analysts claim Pacific Islanders are genetically predisposed to gaining greater amounts of weight than their Western counterparts. A contrasting report claims colonial settlers from Europe and later Australia are to blame for teaching the Islanders Western ways of eating and cooking like frying food rather than eating it boiled or raw.
WHO takes a look at a list of the top 10 most overweight countries in the world. Kuwait Taking the bemusing title of 10th fattest country in the world, Kuwait is the only nation in the top 10 outside the South Pacific region.
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