the more appropriate term here would be "totalitarian" or "authoritarian".
Countries like Nepal have communist parties in charge but still give out stats unimpeded while non-communist dictatorships like Turkmenistan struggles to do so.
idk if NK can be called communist anyways.. heck communist manifesto and das kapital are banned there
You can see the difference in South Korea. Older generations are shorter and thinner. High school students are getting taller and fatter, and have more acne. They are eating more western-style fast food.
I think this used to be called the Skinniest Countries quiz but they changed the name to be less depressing as impoverished African countries were overrepresented. I think QM may have changed the criteria, too, perhaps from lowest average BMI to lowest % of obese adults?
Anyway, the above countries show up due to a combination of common body types, genetics, diet, and, in several but not all of these places, malnutrition.
What about Venezuela? Do we not have accurate current data for them due to the political unrest? They implemented socialism a few years ago and now the entire country is starving -- I believe even moreso than most of the countries on this list.
It certainly had more to do with oil prices than "socialism"... but it also had a lot to do with bad government, corruption, poor management of resources, and a very undiversified economy which is a common problem in countries with authoritarian governments and planned economies. Russia, the USA, Canada, Norway, Saudi Arabia and the UAE didn't descend into anarchy, and they all have petroleum industries as big as Venezuela's.
Actually obesity is correlated to malnutrition in general, not only over nutrition (eating too much). If you dont eat enough, and not diversified enough, you might be as obese as much as if you binge fast food everyday.
Thats why a lot of starving countries (somalia, south sudan, mali...) are not represented in this quiz. On the other hands, rather wealthy countries that have a culinary tradition f diversified and healthy food (in Asia for instance) dont have any obesity. But that is changing really fast due to the implementation of fast/sweet food from the West. In Cambodia the rate of obesity has doubled in 20 years, due to the processed foods.
I'd guess poverty, but then why wouldn't all the subsaharan African countries precede them? Maybe Africa gets more food welfare? India and Bangladesh seem surprising, given they're so populous. I assume Oceania gets omitted due to a sedentary lifestyle of being tied to a small location.
Maybe it's a religious thing? But AFAIK SEA is pretty diverse in that regard (Japan, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia - Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist)
From the videos I've seen of Africa, I assume the women get fat, while the men stay relatively lean by staying physically active?
SEA people are mostly very thin. I think it's a combination of genetics and common body types there, and diet (lots of rice and fish and vegetables.. not a lot of processed food), plus culture. It could have a little to do with poverty but.... I don't think so. I've spent a lot of time in SE Asia and most of the people there even the very poor ones are not starving. It's not like North Korea or parts of Africa.
I wouldn't be too surprised to see the countries remaining on the list moving down or dropping off in coming decades, though, as diet and lifestyle continues to change. The proliferation of cars in Vietnam over the past 15 years, for instance, has been astonishing. I think that Thailand and the Philippines might show up on this list, too, except that American fast food chains have been in those places longer and gotten more popular than they have so far in Vietnam or Cambodia.
Countries like Nepal have communist parties in charge but still give out stats unimpeded while non-communist dictatorships like Turkmenistan struggles to do so.
idk if NK can be called communist anyways.. heck communist manifesto and das kapital are banned there
Anyway, the above countries show up due to a combination of common body types, genetics, diet, and, in several but not all of these places, malnutrition.
Thats why a lot of starving countries (somalia, south sudan, mali...) are not represented in this quiz. On the other hands, rather wealthy countries that have a culinary tradition f diversified and healthy food (in Asia for instance) dont have any obesity. But that is changing really fast due to the implementation of fast/sweet food from the West. In Cambodia the rate of obesity has doubled in 20 years, due to the processed foods.
I'd guess poverty, but then why wouldn't all the subsaharan African countries precede them? Maybe Africa gets more food welfare? India and Bangladesh seem surprising, given they're so populous. I assume Oceania gets omitted due to a sedentary lifestyle of being tied to a small location.
Maybe it's a religious thing? But AFAIK SEA is pretty diverse in that regard (Japan, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia - Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist)
From the videos I've seen of Africa, I assume the women get fat, while the men stay relatively lean by staying physically active?
I wouldn't be too surprised to see the countries remaining on the list moving down or dropping off in coming decades, though, as diet and lifestyle continues to change. The proliferation of cars in Vietnam over the past 15 years, for instance, has been astonishing. I think that Thailand and the Philippines might show up on this list, too, except that American fast food chains have been in those places longer and gotten more popular than they have so far in Vietnam or Cambodia.