The #1 Fattest Country in the World

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today we’re going to talk about the fattest country in the world. In this country, the average person weighs 225 pounds. This country also has the highest rate of diabetes. Nauru, a small island in the South Pacific with a population of 11,000, is the fattest country in the world.

The island of Nauru was a rich source of phosphate and quickly became one of the richest countries in the world. When all of the phosphate was depleted from the land, the country went into a deep state of poverty where it has remained ever since.

Nauru’s obesity rate went from 2% to 61%. This was caused by the shift from a traditional diet of fish, coconuts, fruits, vegetables, taro, palm oil, and coconut oil without any grains or seed oils to a Westernized diet of processed foods.

Nauru’s soils have been depleted, so they’re no good for growing food. Over 40% of the marine life has been destroyed by pollution, and nearly 100% of the food is imported. Even water must be imported into Nauru.

Ultra-processed foods typically contain the following three types of ingredients that can cause many consequences for your health:

1. Artificial starches: Modified food starch, modified corn starch, maltodextrin

2. Synthetic sugars: Corn syrup, glucose syrup

3. Highly inflammatory seed oils: Corn, cottonseed, canola, soy, and safflower oils

Seed oils are the only trending item that parallels obesity, even more than sugar! They create nutritional deficiencies, inflammation, and cause you to feel hungry after eating.

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0:00.0	Today we're going to talk about the number one fattest country in the entire world.
0:05.9	Can you guess what it is? Go ahead and comment down below. We're talking about 94.5%
0:12.1	either overweight or obese with an average weight of 225 pounds per person.
0:19.8	And on top of it, this country has the highest rate of diabetes of any other country.
0:25.8	It's one of the small islands in the South Pacific.
0:28.2	It's called Nauru.
0:29.8	But it's a very tiny country.
0:31.3	It has a population of 11,000. Now what happened in 1975 there was this huge boom with this
0:39.2	mineral called phosphate and this country became one of the richest countries in the world in a short period of time.
0:46.2	And so they had a lot of money, they had a lot of cars, a lot of buildings, and of course with that came corruption
0:56.7	until the point where all of this mineral was completely gone. It was depleted from the land and this country went into a deep poverty state where it's remained ever since. Now the question is what
1:05.9	happened to bring this obesity rate from 2% up to I think it's like 61%.
1:13.0	We do know they went from their traditional foods
1:17.0	to westernized processed food, if you want to call it that.
1:21.0	Traditionally, they ate a lot of fish. They had
1:23.7	coconuts, fruits, they had vegetables, they had tarot root, but they didn't eat much
1:30.8	grain or seed oil, they had palm oil and coconut oil,
1:35.4	but they made the shift to more grains,
1:37.6	processed grains, what we call alter processed foods,
1:41.2	which we also include highly refined seed oils. And so some people might blame
1:46.0	this inactivity, that may be part of it, and other people will say, well, it's more sodium
1:51.6	or more saturated fat. And that's not really the root
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