01-01-2012, 10:24 PM
(12-23-2011, 11:01 PM)Epeolatry Wrote: Probably the most un-informed kid I have ever heard. ^
http://www.infoplease.com/world/statistics/obesity.html
Here's the date that was compiled:
Quote:Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
And the US is a lot larger than most of those other listed countries, meaning even though the percentage of the total is less, the amount of people who are obese in total as a number is greater than the total number of obese people in those other countries.
Percentage doesn't mean anything, what if a country had 2 people in it, 1 was obese, that's already 50% of the population that can be held accountable for that obesity rank.