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Six of the seven countries with the highest rates are English-speaking . This is according to a new report from the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development). The country at the of the list is the USA. This is by Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland. The OECD looked at 33 countries. The other 26 countries were -English speaking. The ten countries included Japan, Korea, Italy, Switzerland and Sweden. Health are now wondering why English-speaking countries top the world’s obesity . One theory is that they are all copying an American lifestyle; people eat a lot of fast food and a lot of it is in considerably larger than those found in the rest of the world.

The OECD report some interesting . Australia has the fastest growing obesity . They are expected to rise by another 15 per cent over the next decade. This to an increase of five per cent in South Korea. Education makes a big difference to in America and Sweden. Poorly educated women are 30 per cent more likely to be overweight than those who had a good . Swedish women with poor educations are more than as overweight as women. In the USA and UK, children are particularly overweight. Around 30 per cent of British kids are overweight, compared with 40 per cent for their American . In Sweden, one person in ten is obese, although more than half of adult men and a of adult women are overweight there.