Are there any wealthy countries without an obesity epidemic

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I figured Japan wouldn’t but i am wrong.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/05/15/japan.obese.reut/

A BMI of 30 or more is considered obese in the West, while the figure for Japan is 25 or higher.

The percentage of obese Japanese males is lower than in the United States, where nearly 68 percent of men aged 20 to 72 are at an unhealthy weight.

But the trend is worrying. A government survey in 2002 showed that more than 30 percent of Japanese men aged 30 to 69 were obese, a rise of more than 40 percent from two decades earlier.

Their obesity/overweight rates are only half that of the US but they are still a problem. Are there any wealthy countries that don’t struggle with obesity (including the asian tiger countries)?

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I’d just like to make the quick point that theres a difference between ‘unhealthy’ and ‘a huge health risk’.

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AFAIK, while most wealthy countries do have more than their share of obesity, the US takes the cake. (Note also that obesity is on the rise in a lot of developing countries as well - in even some poor places unhealthy food is readily-enough available that overweight is a rising problem.)

But most countries don’t see the problems the US has, and I’d chalk a lot of it up to the way we drive. Living in suburban areas in the US is clearly linked to overweight, due to the fact that folks here tend not to walk much in their daily lives, and in most of Europe at least walking is the commonest way to get ones daily errands done. Note that the French, Italians, and Spanish tend not to be quite as fat as we are here.

But I think obesity is pretty inevitable anywhere that food supplies are abundant, especially when unhealthy, calorie-dense foods are cheaper than healthier ones.