What I don't understand is why the rate of obesity is so much less in Asia? You can argue some countries (Pakistan, India, China, etc.) would be low due to high poverty rates in large parts of those countries, but what about economically successful Asian nations like Japan and South Korea? How is it that those two countries can have obesity rates around 3% when Canada is at 14% and USA close to 25%? Those are
huge differences and I simply don't understand why, if obesity is nothing more then an illness, or a symptom of a greater problem, so many more North American's become obese?
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/he...health-obesity