I'm interested in these numbers. They say "overweight OR obese." Overweight by BMI sometimes can be a joke, as we all know, and has been established in other thread.
I'd rather see numbers of people who are actually OBESE or SIGNIFICANTLY OVERWEIGHT, and is there some way to measure it besides BMI?
A lot of the cultures named value an appearance of being well-fed, too.
In Argentina, meat is actually cheap compared to the United States, one of my Argentine friends was telling me about this; so they eat a lot of red meat, but they also eat a lot of Italian foods like prosciutto and cheese with bread, as well as completely Argentine delights, like deep fried savory empanadas with chimichurri sauce.
So...what I'm saying is that okay...you have a culture like Mexico or Argentina where they find curvier women more desirable...and I'm sure this is the case with some of the other countries...so right there this might skew the numbers toward what would only be considered slightly overweight, and then by BMI standards, perhaps not even REAL health standards.
Do you get what I'm saying? Then you're lumping those cultures in with a place like the U.S. where there's actually a lot of OBESE people.