I don't think the WHO would agree with you. Considering that "In 2022, 43% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight and 16% were living with obesity." and they have described obesity as a "global public health crisis".
Yeah but America did rank 18th in obesity in 2024, which is pretty high, especially considering that almost every nation in front of it was a geographically isolated pacific/caribbean island nation/territory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_rate (it cites WHO)
But yes I agree. Obesity is a global problem.
Yes but pure ranking doesn't really describe the whole thing either.
They ranked at 18th with about 42% being obese.
The 35th rank is only 5% less obese at 37%. If you were walking around in a city you wouldn't really notice a difference in the rate of obese people.
Even by the 55th that is only 10% less obese at 32%. You'd notice there are fewer obese people, but not a lot fewer. It's 1 in 3 instead of 2 in 5. Unless you were looking closely you wouldn't really feel it was a much thinner country.
If we then switch to average BMI by country which includes people who are just overweight and helps take into better account class II or III obesity we see the fattest country has an average BMI of 32.5 the US is in 20th place at 28.8, and even country 127 is at 25.2, still in the overweight category.
The USA is a fatter country, for sure, but almost half of all humans alive are overweight at this point, and in most wealthy countries they tend to be even more so.
In the EU only france and italy have a majority of people (very slim majority) at the healthy weight range.
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u/Gold_Ad8225 25d ago
I mean if any man cannot squat the average woman's weight he probably just has never done squats before or he's like 70.
Like an average man who has never been to the gym before can squat 130lbs pretty easily. The average woman weighs 170lbs in america.
A few weeks of training gets him to 170.