What is more important in determining global life span? Poverty or obesity?
- snitzoid
- Jun 8
- 1 min read
This a fricken confusing. I thought there would be a clear correlation between poverty and obesity and life span. Not so simple. The US is clearly behind the eightball because our population eats like crap (is fat). As for poverty, places that have more, particularly in Asia still having better health outcomes. I suspect the latter is do to less obesity.
Claude: Qbesity data for the countries in the charts. Now I have everything needed. Here are the verified obesity rates (WHO 2022) for all 14 countries: Japan ~4.3%, South Korea ~6.3%, India ~3.9%, China ~6.2%, Hong Kong ~5.4%, Singapore ~6.1%, Thailand ~10.0%, Ukraine ~24.1%, Italy ~21.3%, Switzerland ~19.5%, Spain ~24.2%, Germany ~22.3%, Poland ~25.7%, Nigeria ~8.9%, and the US ~36.2%.


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