[tomw1808]

I have an honest question here, that is a bit off-topic:

When I look at the pictures, I see most people are overweight (some are outright fat and obese). Is that just by accident on these particular pictures with a tiny sample size? Or is that a problem in Mexico?

I'm from Europe and when I think about Mexico, I do not have overweight people in my mind, instead a relatively healthy diet of local produce. Is that a misconception?

[wolftickets]

Yes that is a misconception: https://data.worldobesity.org/country/mexico-139/#data_preva...

[tomw1808]

wow, that is quite an eye opener. That's terrible really. It's like a whole country is addicted to sugar drinks and wheat flour (?).

Thanks for sharing

[littlekey]

It's a very real issue. The main problem is that Coca Cola basically took over the whole country. In my experience you can't find a dinner table without a liter bottle of coke or processed juice. I've gotten strange reactions when asking for water, it's just not done most of the time. The other factor is that because they (and Nestlé I think) use up so much of the water supply to produce their drinks in the first place, it drives up the price of water in those areas to such an extent that you "might as well" just buy soda.

[alecco]

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/nov/04/s...