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This is not just a US thing. See http://www.infoplease.com/world/statistics/obesity.html http://www.infoplease.com/world/statistics/obesity.html and http://www.

• chatmasta 10y ago
  Interesting, thanks for the link. Further research led me to this wiki article [0] containing a partial hypothesis: > Reasons for this issue include mining operations that have left not much arable land; as a result, much of the local diet is of processed, calorie-dense, imported food such as Spam or corned beef, rather than fresh fish, fruit and vegetables [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_Pacific https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_Pacific