America no longer world’s fattest developed nation, UN report says

[malaise]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/news/america-fattest-obese-un-144341236.html
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We did it, America!

According to a new report from the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, the United States is no longer the world's fattest developed nation―Mexico is.

Nearly a third of Mexican adults (32.8 percent) are considered obese—people aged 20 and older whose body mass index (BMI) is 30 and above. That edges out the United States, where 31.8 percent of American adults are considered obese.

Syria at 31.6 percent, is the third fattest among developed countries, while Venezuela and Libya are tied for fourth at 30.8 percent.

“The same people who are malnourished are the ones who are becoming obese,” Abelardo Avila, a physician with Mexico's National Nutrition Institute, told the Global Post. “In the poor classes we have obese parents and malnourished children. The worst thing is the children are becoming programmed for obesity. It's a very serious epidemic.”

[CatWoman]

1. doesn't surprise me about Mexico

their diet is worse than our's (and that's saying something).

fried cheese, anyone

[malaise]

3. Amazed to see T&T, St Vincent and Dominica there

[Benton D Struckcheon]

2. Wife's Mexican, she has that regularly

But I have to say, quesadillas, especially bought from a street vendor in, say, Guadalajara, are seriously delicious. Worth clogging your arteries for.

[JI7]

4. thanks to Michelle and many others

there has been a very strong focus on more healthy living in this country. i have even seen it in the more poor areas which usually are filled with fast food places and lack of better options.

[malaise]

8. Valid point

I wonder if this can be measured

[JI7]

5. did anyone see Bourdain's CNN show on Libya ?

they had one scene which showed some fried chicken place and how they didn't have that before when Gadaffi was in power. but i guess the fast food and other crappy food places are now moving in.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

6. Mexico is a developed nation?

what does an undeveloped nation look like?

[malaise]

7. Like parts of the Appalachian Trail or some of the

ghettos of America?
Have you ever looked at underdevelopment in your own country?

[Pretzel_Warrior]

9. yes I have.

I had always seen and heard Mexico described as a developING nation--not developed nation. The areas I have seen led me to the same conclusions.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

11. Classified as middle income

Been there quite a bit. Lots of stunning poverty, but a much larger middle class than the usual American stereotype. If you can make it to middle class in Mexico, you can live quite well, better than most middle class folks in the US in terms of quality, I think, even if quantitatively your income is less.
Working class is appreciably poorer than working class in the US, but not starving by any means.
You don't want to be poor there, though. Poor and Indian is the worst. Indians are treated very badly.

[Aerows]

12. Some folks

don't even follow their own sig line.

[malaise]

13. Profound

in every sense

[Pretzel_Warrior]

16. all I did was ask a basic question about the characterization of a country I've been to several time

and now I'm accused of being close minded for asking if "Developed Nation" is an accurate description?

interesting.

[malaise]

18. All I see on this planet is the 1% versus the rest of us

Developed and developing no longer have meaning. The gap between rich and poor is now a chasm, all our wages are depressed, all our unions have been weakened or destroyed and they're violating all our rights. Divide and rule doesn't work for me.

[galileoreloaded]

19. I don't think you were accused of being

stupid, just ignorant. And yes, Mexico is Third World in every objective measure for many tangible and empirical reasons.

[TwilightGardener]

10. Refried beans with cheese and sour cream, please.

Mmmm.... Mexican food. I guess the US serves as a buffer between Canadians and chimichangas, or they'd be fat too.

[okaawhatever]

14. ROFL.

[Union Scribe]

15. We're #2! We're #2!

[malaise]

17. There must be some peeps really annoyed

They want to be #1 at everything

[olddots]

20. gee might this have something to do with food

or what is called food in the 21st.century ? We ain't seen nuttin yet .

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Trade places every so often