Everyone says America is a country of the very fat and very loud.  While our loudness isn’t up for debate, our fatness is.  After all, America isn’t even the world’s fattest country.  We’re third, after American Samoa and Kiribati, two tiny islands in the Pacific Ocean with large (in mass) populations.

Nine out of every 10 Samoans, or 93% of the population, qualifies as obese versus only 81.5% of people from Kiribati. The United States’ 66.7% of the population being overweight just barely edges out Germany’s 66.5% and Egypt’s 66%.  Also in the top 10 pudgy nations are Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Zealand, Israel, Croatia, and the United Kingdom.

The main problem for the Pacific islanders?  Western food, specifically cheap and unhealthy fare like Spam.  A lot of Samoans work outside the country, pick up a taste for bad western food, and bring it home with them.  Combine that with massive food imports required to sustain the local population in these relatively poor nations, and you’ve got a recipe for monstrous obesity rates.

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