It is even more telling when you consider the cultural problem in the US with being overweight. If health care systems were equal, this should show up in the numbers as somewhat worse for the US to reflect the higher obesity rate as a potential underlying condition.
It is even more telling when you consider the cultural problem in the US with being overweight. If health care systems were equal, this should show up in the numbers as somewhat worse for the US to reflect the higher obesity rate as a potential underlying condition.
source on USA being more overweight than spain/uk/italy/etc?
Here is one which has the data. Looks like spain is 62, Italy 92, US 16. WHO
This is from 2014, and I believe that more recently Mexico had moved higher than the US though the closest European country I had thought was the UK.
Edit* Here is one with more recent data from a few sources which has similar rankings: obesity rates by country