가장 달게 먹는 나라는? Where people around the world eat the most sugar and fat
Where people around the world eat the most sugar and fat
세계에서 가장 달게 먹는 나라는 미국(126.4g)을 선두로 유럽 쪽이 다수를 차지했다.
이들 나라는 하루에 100g 전후의 당분을 섭취하는 것으로 나타났다.
반면에 가장 적게 먹는 나라군은 단연 아시아쪽이다.
최저 섭취량의 인도(4.7g/일)을 비롯하여 이스라엘 인도네시아 중국 등의 일 섭취량이 16g 이하였다.
한국은 30.8g/일으로 하위권에 속하며 일본은 우리나라보다 높은 56.7g/일을 섭취했다.
비만도도 당분 섭취량과 비례해 미국이 가장 높은 수치를 나타냈다.
미국같은 경우는 설탕 덩어리라고 할 수 있는 콜라 섭취량이 많은 이유 때문인것으로 나타났다.
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ki chul, hwang conpaper editor
By Roberto A. Ferdman February 5, 2015
We all know Americans love their sugar. But data from market research firm Euromonitor suggest that the love may border on lunacy, at least compared with the rest of the world.
Here in the United States, the average person consumes more than 126 grams of sugar per day, which is slightly more than three 12-ounce cans of Coca-Cola. That's more than twice the average sugar intake of all 54 countries observed by Euromonitor. It's also more than twice what the World Health Organization recommends for daily intake, which is roughly 50 grams of sugar for someone of normal weight.
In Germany, the second-most sugar-loving nation in the world, people eat roughly 103 grams on average. In the Netherlands, the country with the third-biggest sweet tooth, people eat 102.5 grams. And in Ireland, which ranks fourth on the list, sugar intake falls just short of 97 grams.
At the other end of the spectrum are India, Israel, Indonesia and China, where people apparently don't like sweets. In India, people eat only about 5 grams per day on average. In Israel, it's 14.5 grams. In Indonesia, it's just over 15 grams. And in China, it's just under 16 grams.
Here's the full list (notice that people eat fewer than 25 grams of sugar in only 10 countries):
Where people eat the most sugar
How much sugar the average person consumes each day.
The good news for Americans is that they fare a bit better when it comes to fat consumption.
Belgium, where people eat 95 grams of fat each day on average, holds the distinction of being the world's most fat-crazed country. Germany, where people eat 86.5 grams of fat each day on average, is second. Finland, where people eat just shy of 81 grams, is third. And the Netherlands, where people eat just over 80 grams, is fourth. The United States is 16th on the list, at 65.5 grams, roughly 12 grams more than the average seen across the 54 countries.
India, Indonesia and South Korea, where people eat the least amount of fat, consume 10 grams, 15.5 grams, and just over 20 grams per capita, respectively.
The U.S. government recommends that people "aim for a total fat intake of no more than 30 percent of calories." Assuming that people consume 2,000 calories a day (which they don't, but let's assume they do), that would mean about 65 grams of fat. So Americans aren't doing all that bad.
Interestingly, neither sugar nor fat consumption seems to be a good indicator of obesity — not at least among those countries that eat the most fat and sugar. Sure, Americans are both eating way too much sugar and outpacing the rest of the world in waistline. But outside of that, there doesn't seem to be much of a suggestion that an affinity for either is associated with higher rates of obesity in these countries — based on this data at least.
Germany, which ranks second in both sugar and fat consumption per capita, is among the skinniest nations in the developed world. Only 14.7 percent of its population over the age of 14 is considered obese, according to data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Similarly, other countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden, are both near the top in sugar and fat intake, and near the bottom in obesity rates.
Lower sugar and fat consumption, however, does appear to align — at least a little more — with lower obesity rates, probably because it reflects lower consumption of food more generally. India, Indonesia and China, which are at or near the bottom of the list in both sugar and fat consumption, also happen to have the three lowest obesity rates (2.1, 2.4 and 2.9 percent, respectively) among the countries the OECD tracks.
What exactly does this all mean? It's unclear. But it does make you wonder whether there's a better gauge for why people in some countries are so overweight and others are not. One possibility is that it's not the raw amount of fat or sugar content alone that matters, it's also the type of food that's being eaten. In the United States, processed foods are still wildly popular, a fact that could offer one more theory of how this country came to have an obesity rate above 35 percent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/05/where-people-around-the-world-eat-the-most-sugar-and-fat
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