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25 Most Obese Countries In the World
Ty Haqqi
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In this article we take a look at the 25 most obese countries in the world. Click to skip ahead and jump to the 10 most obese countries in the world.

We might be in the middle of a life changing and history defining pandemic, which has cost more than a million lives and has resulted in the infection of over 32 million people at least. It has ruined economies and cost the livelihoods of tens of millions of people across the world. Even in the US alone, over 40 million filed for unemployment, though as businesses start opening back up, the number is going down as more businesses are hiring.

In the midst of what has been one of the most incredible and unbelievable year in recent memory, an epidemic which has been brewing for years if not the last few decades, has slipped in the back and isn't facing as much attention as it should be. I am of course talking about the global obesity epidemic, which should ideally be something the world is facing head on, as its effects are extremely visible. However, the epidemic not only doesn't show any signs of slowing down, it actually seems to be accelerating at an alarming rate.

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Obesity tends to affect all races and cultures, genders and ages. It doesn't discriminate at all, which is why it is even more dangerous. Further, obesity doesn't affect just underdeveloped countries, but also developed countries. In fact America is one of the 11 fattest countries in the world. Obesity is truly a global problem affecting hundreds of millions of people around the world. In 1995, we had 200 million obese adults and 18 million children under the age of 5 who were deemed overweight, which seems like a lot, but compared to today, seems like a dream. In 2016, there were 650 million people who were obese, while more than 1.9 billion adults, nearly forty percent of the global population, were overweight. Just focus on that statistic here. Nearly every second adult across the entire globe is overweight.

Want to hear another damning statistic? The majority of the world's population lives in countries where more people die of conditions related to being overweight rather than being underweight. In 2019, 38 million children under the age of 5 were overweight, while for the age group 5-19, an incredible 340 million children were overweight. The saddest thing about all of this? Obesity is preventable.

So what causes obesity and why has there been such a massive increase recently? The basic reason behind obesity is simply consuming more calories than you expend. Nowadays, fatty foods are all the rage and fast food has taken over the world. These foods have high fat and sugar, and result in the consumption of a lot more calories and bad fats than you should be taking. Global companies like The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO), PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ:PEP), Mondelez International, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDLZ), McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD), and Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) are among the companies that feast on consumers' inability to control their sugar and carb addictions.

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