The World's Fattest Country

The world’s fattest country as many people may think would be the United States of America. However this is incorrect, the South Pacific island of Nauru, is in fact the fattest country in the world. With 95% of the population considered overweight this country is way worse than the untied states at 79% of its population considered overweight.

The “peoples of the South Pacific often view excess weight as a sign of beauty, wealth and privilege.” On the island of Nauru they “historically held fattening ceremonies in which young women were confined and fed disproportionately.” This however was not done to people of low social status which is pretty much the opposite of what is seen in western culture when the lower class people are usually the ones that are obese. The data to determine the fattest country is based off of the 2010 world health organization (WHO) body mass index (BMI). Which is a number based ratio on height and weight, and if it is over 25 you are considered overweight. I personally thought that the United States was the fattest country in the world but I have been proved wrong by this insightful news story. I was even more surprised to discover that the United States isn’t even in the top 5 they are in 8^th place, behind a bunch of pacific island nations.

View the news story here:

http://beta.ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/world-fattest-countries.html