{"id":1808,"date":"2008-09-29T09:06:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T08:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2008-09-29T11:48:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T10:48:37","slug":"funhouse-mirror-on-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1808","title":{"rendered":"Funhouse mirror on the wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gnxp\/2008\/09\/genetic_engineering_in_the_ser.php\">Razib<\/a>, I just stumbled on this global obesity chart. No prizes for guessing that the fattest people on earth are Americans, at 30% obese, and it&#8217;s reasonable that Britain, at 23% shoud be in third place. But&#8212;except that it&#8217;s next to Texas&#8212;there seems no reason for Mexicans to be fatter than the Brits, as they are.<\/p>\n\n\t<p>Although I remember Sweden as a country with no fat people at all, and so they figure largely in my sight when I go there now, it is in fact 21 on the list, with 9.7%, less than half the British rate. On the other hand, a third of Swedish cats are overweight, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svd.se\/nyheter\/inrikes\/artikel_1796859.svd\">according to today&#8217;s paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t<p>The two thinnest rich countries are Japan and South Korea, both with less than 4% obesity. Oliver Sacks, I know, cured his corpulence by eating nothing but sushi for lunch for years, if not decades.<\/p>\n\n\t<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationmaster.com\/graph\/hea_obe-health-obesity\">NationMaster &#8211; Obesity (most recent) by country<\/a>.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>via Razib, I just stumbled on this global obesity chart. No prizes for guessing that the fattest people on earth are Americans, at 30% obese, and it&#8217;s reasonable that Britain, at 23% shoud be in third place. But&#8212;except that it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1808\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}