The worlds fattest countris are Polynesian: Nauru, Cook Islands, Palau, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Niue, Tonga, Samoa, Kiribati, and Micronesia. This is directly attributable to colonization, destruction of indigenous culture and foodways, and forced second-class citizenship.

The next fattest, in order, are Kuwait, United States, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, (all very rich countries), Lebanon, Libya, Turkey, Egypt, and UAE. Obviously some of the latter have had their wealth pilfered through various proxy wars but Lebanon and Libya are the only ones in real trouble. Most of these nations are doing ok considering. The UAE is obscenely wealthy.

These are followed by these fat cats:

Bahamas, New Zealand, Iraq, Fiji, Bahrain, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Malta, South Africa, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Dominica, United Kingdom, Syria, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Oman, Tunisia, Hungary, Suriname, Lithuania, Morocco, Israel, Czech Republic, Iran, Costa Rica, Venezuela, and Andorra.

So it does appear that obesity afflicts those who had everything stolen from them, as well as those who did the stealing.

It's like a beautiful Greek tragedy that only one of these countries has a for-profit medical system that bankrupts whatever citizens it doesn't kill and equally interesting that all of the economies mentioned were initially based on the capture and sale of human beings. Slavery appears to be the gift that keeps on giving.

It's almost like heart disease, diabetes and somatization disorders are the price the seventh generation pays for genocide. Epigenetics be crazy like that.

Regardless, hiring some tech bro to leverage the low hanging fruit and employ best practices to gain traction with social media consumers seems right on brand for these vultures. They'll keep moving the goalposts until we have more mass extinctions than the Permian-Triassic and make the PETM look like winter.