U.S., U.K. Are Fattest Countries in OECD

But it looks like the number of overweight and obese people might have peaked in most countries in recent years.

New data published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has found, once again, that the United States is its fattest member country, followed closely by the ever-portlier United Kingdom. Australia, Spain, and Canada rounded (ha!) out the top five, although the OECD concludes that the number of obese and overweight people in those countries appears to be stabilizing. Previous projections from the OECD had suggested that as many as three-quarters of Americans would be obese or overweight by 2020, but the rate of growth (...) in new cases has levelled off somewhat in the past three years. Ditto for childhood obesity rates, which currently sit at about 40 per cent of the population but have stabilized over the past decade. All in all, the OECD concludes that obesity and overweight rates have basically remained stable across most its member nations in recent years.