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Jeez, talking about begging the question. No, not 'essentially every culture in every country worldwide' has an obesity problem, so your strawman doesn't even f
by vacri 9y ago
Jeez, talking about begging the question. No, not 'essentially every culture in every country worldwide' has an obesity problem, so your strawman doesn't even fit.
- Retric 9y agoWorldwide every single country has over 20% of the population is Obese excluding possibility Sudan and South Sudan which lacks data and is in the middle of a war. http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A904?lang=en http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A904?lang=en India for example seems low by comparison, but the rate is still up more than 20% since 1975. 18.5% for adults in 1975 vs 21.8% in 2016. Even Ethiopia the lowest country in the world is over 20.6 vs 17.7%.
- vacri 9y ago... and from your link, almost all the countries were over 20% in 1975 as well. Plenty of them have barely changed. > but the rate is still up more than 20% since 1975. 18.5% for adults in 1975 vs 21.8% in 2016 Nitpick: a rise of 20% on that 18.5% would make it 22.2% Edit: I'm also not sure why the 20% marker seems to be your cutoff for "having an obesity problem". Ethiopia's famous famine went from 1983-85, yet their obesity rate for '85 is 18.7%. That seems to be an awful thin line to walk, where 18.7% marks a famine and 20% marks obesity problem. Similarly, the Second Congo War went from 1999 to 2003 and almost 4 million people died, mostly from famine.. yet throughout that, the Democratic Republic of the Congo maintained obesity rates above 20% in your link.
- Retric 9y agoThis data only goes back to 1975. For comparison US obesity rate in 1950 was 10% and considered a problem at the time now it's 35%. North Korea might not be twice that, but it seems like every other functioning country is. PS: Ops yea, just used 18 not 18.5. But it is over 15% increase.