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The Worlds Fattest Country: How 94.5% Became Overweight
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Is it just me or is the narration terrible? I am missing words left and right.
Please announciate!
EDIT: hehe enunciate
Nauru – 3rd smallest country in the world. People are fat due to sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy foods. They import most of their food and it is mostly processed food.
More here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Nauru
The overwhelming majority of people is overweight because their diet is shit.
weird coincidence. I just watched a completely different video about this country an hour or so ago. https://youtu.be/eUJgq9HerDQ
It’s sad but I liked the little boat animation and sea sailing theme.
Is it because they take in more calories than they burn?
**Phosphate Farming** is the answer
> Approximately 90% of the land area of Nauru is covered with phosphate deposits, with the majority strip-mined and non-arable. This has led to Nauruan reliance on processed food..
-Wiki
In the comments it’s clear the major point was missed: that myriad factors influence the obesity rate – i.e. it’s not just the calorie intake. Not saying there isn’t personal responsibility, but mitigating circumstances can make stuff harder to achieve. A few things that jumped out to me…
The island has been destroyed through industrialization (they stripped it for phosphate). Due to that, fresh food prices are astronomical. The price of that fruit? IDK what currency it was but if Euro or USD that was a 60 dollar watermelon. Imagine not being able to afford vegetables or fruit because some people (both from the island and colonial influence) generations ago sold your island and then squandered the funds?
The other point is there’s a connection to colonialism and destruction of natural resources that negatively affects the local populace. On that obesity list there were other islands with similar colonial histories and pillaging of natural resources. Each of those islands now contends with astronomically-priced fresh food because it’s all imported and very high obesity rates.
I’m sure there are better resources, but here are a few about the environmental and social and other impacts of colonialism on affected populations:
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/48835717.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7165433/
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/the-persistent-effects-of-colonialism-in-caribbean-science/
It’s the SPAM!
The main cause of obesity and illness, Processed carbs, sugar, fructose, alcohol.
Consuming these in any more than really small amounts, makes you sick and fat, that’s what’s going on.
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Has nothing what so ever to do with meat and fat, hunter gatherers who eat mostly that are not fat, interestingly hunter gatherers who now eat a Western diet consisting of processed grains are now fat..
SPAM being essentially a delicacy in so many places is such a crazy thing. It literally looks like a comically dystopian product from a video game.
Interesting, but tragic, story.
The video would have been much better if the obesity physiology was not left to a self-help person, and included the modern view. He is right that it is the switch away from whole food to ultraprocessed food, but it is WAY more complicated than a difference in calories out – in. Look up Rick Johnston or Robert Lustig’s work – just listen to one of their many 1h videos.
A very long commercial for a book!
European really fucked the world
Anybody else see the video of the groom doing part of his wedding speech in Korean recently on Reddit?
Did not expect to see him in this video! Pretty cool coincidence.
He is Ben carpenter, the author.
Shout out to Nauru for housing Australia’s private prison for holding refugees in indefinite detention without charge to exploit the loophole in international law thus avoiding having to grant them asylum in Australia.
I think I found the culprit guys. Minimizing process food will make you much healthier and live a longer life.
Sad how everyone wants to go from hard thermodynamics which have the individual responsible for how much kcal they eat per day, to some proxy in which the food companies are to blame.
If they were, and food were making you fat, we wouldn’t see any skinny people anywhere, regardless of kcal consumed. The food isn’t at fault, its working just fine if you’re able to store an excess.
What limited peoples weight in the past is the same as it did in naru: price per kcal. And not just in raw dollars, but in gather and prep times. Its also not a lack of exercise.
Don’t forget they also have one of the highest rates of smokers too
Did a McDonald’s open?
Oh, this again. Reading for one minute on wikipedia on its history is much better than watching a 15-minute amateur documentary full of bait and filler.
TL:DW, if I recall:
Nauru used to have some arable land. Not good, but an OK amount. Then, phosphate was discovered and mining was really lucrative and deals were stuck with Australian mining firms to destroy their arable land and extract the resources in return for $$$$. Initially this seemed OK because they would just import their food and they didn’t need to farm. This ended up being a problem because you can’t import healthy food cheaply, and all the phosphate got mined out fairly quickly because they’re a tiny island and now they have no way to grow their own food so now they can only eat food that is importable and cheap, which is basically Spam and such, which makes them obese.
Importing junk food
All of this will get fixed by the Great Famine of 2041, which only the most obese countries will survive.
I’d be interested to see how the rise of antidepressants have affected weight gain over the last 50 years.