They come here with their diabetes and heart attacks and make americans
pay for it. No more immigration - legal or illegal.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/81779544-f6ca-11dd-8a1f-0000779fd2ac.html
Mexico pays price for obesity trend
By Adam Thomson in Mexico City
Published: February 9 2009 17:08 | Last updated: February 9 2009 17:08
According to statistics published last month by the health ministry, the
country now has the fattest population in the world, with 70 per cent of
adults either overweight or obese.
Obesity-related illnesses are now so widespread that they are beginning
to place a severe strain on the health system: the treatment of type 2
diabetes alone consumes more than one-third of the entire social security
budget. Estimates suggest that within five years it will account for two-
thirds.
Josefina Fausto, a health expert at the University of Guadalajara, says
that behind the explosion in obesity in Mexico is a radical change in
diet that stems from the country’s increasing insertion into the global
economy.
In other words, they are eating a lot of US-inspired junk food. “A
century ago, our biggest challenge was malnutrition,” she says. “Today,
it is an excess of foods that are rich in cholesterol and heavy in
saturated oils, sugar and salt.”
The worsening diet – the health ministry claims that consumption of
vegetables has dropped 30 per cent in a decade – is compounded by a
seemingly insatiable appetite for soft drinks, in particular Coca-Cola.
According to the US-based soft-drinks manufacturer, Mexicans drank 573
eight US fluid ounce bottles of Coca-Cola products per capita (roughly
136 litres per person) in 2007 – by far the highest consumption in the
world. In the US, the second biggest per-capita consumer, people drank a
relatively modest 423 bottles in 2007.
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