According to the latest international obesity study from the Organization For Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), America is by far the fattest nation in the world with just over 38% of the adult population considered ‘obese.’
Here are some stats from the OECD’s latest study courtesy of the Washington Examiner:
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In 2015, an estimated 603.7 million adults and 107.7 million children worldwide were obese. That represents about 12 percent of all adults and 5 percent of all children.
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The prevalence of obesity doubled in 73 countries between 1980 and 2015and continuously increased in most of the other countries.
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China and India had the highest number of obese children. China and the U.S. had the highest number of obese adults.
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Excess body weight accounted for about 4 million deaths or 7.1 percent of all deaths in 2015.
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Almost 70 percent of deaths related to a high BMI were due to cardiovascular disease.
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The study finds evidence that having a high BMI causes leukemia and several types of cancer, including cancers of the esophagus, liver, breast, uterus, ovary, kidney and thyroid.