PALAU
Maybe their love for their local cuisines such as cassava, toro, yam potato fish or some of their local drink such as alcoholic drink made from coconut, drink made from the root of kava will attest for the rate of obesity found among the population. This country is definitely one of the obese country in the world with 47.10 percent of the population obese.
NAURU
This tiny country in the south pacific only has a population of 9,300 but has the highest rate of obesity in the world with 78.5 percent of the population categorized as such. They also have unsurprisingly the highest level of type two diabetes
SAMOA
This is another obese country with a population of 55,519 and according to the latest us census, 74.6 percent of its citizens are obese.
TOKELAU
Tokelau is a New Zealand territory with less than 2,000 inhabitants. It’s the fourth least populace country in the world, but 63.4percent of the population is obese.
FRENCH POLYNESIA
Seventeen hundred miles away from Tonga, Polynesia is an oversea country of France, with an obesity rate of 40.9 percent
KIRIBATI
Kiribati with a population of 103,500 people has an obesity rate of 50.6 percent
SAUDI ARABIA
This is one of the largest producers and exporters of oil. With a population of just under 30 million people, their obesity rate is 35.6 percent, making over 10 million Saudis obese.
PANAMA
With a population of 3.6 million, the obesity rate is 34.7 percent.
UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
According to WHO America has an obesity rate of 33.9 percent. With a population of 313 million, the 33.9 percent translates into over 160 million obese Americans.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
The introduction of new larger ambulance built to be able to carry the increasing number of obese patient is a clear evidence of the rate of obesity it is recorded that the obesity rate in the UAE is double the world average with an obesity rate of 34.50 percent.
WRITTEN BY WESTERN BOY
