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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_obesity#/media/File:Obesity_country_comparison_-_path.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_obesity#/media... Italian people are among the least overweight people in the OECD countries, and have a heavily carb based diet. (I think the same applies to Japanese and Korean, but I think there could be a prevalent genetic factor there.) That's not to say that fat makes you obese, just that carbs, per se, don't. Eating too much does.