Why Did Mexico Surpass America in Obesity?

Mexico has surpassed the United States with the highest obesity rates, and the cause of this rise in obesity may surprise you.

Timestamps
0:06 Mexico and obesity
0:37 What caused the obesity rise in Mexico?
1:14 Looking at the change right before the spike

Today we’re going to talk about why Mexico has surpassed the United States in obesity rates.

Mexico and obesity:
In Mexico, the obesity rate for adults is 32.8%.

Obesity in America:
In the United States, the obesity rate for adults is 31.8%.

In Mexico, 70% of adults are overweight. Childhood obesity spiked 3x within the past ten years. Diabetes cases have doubled since the year 2000. No other country has experienced a rise in obesity of that magnitude.

What caused the obesity rise in Mexico?

• Mexico consumes more soda than any other country in the world

Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, 56 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of The New Body Type Guide and other books published by KB Publishing. He has taught students nutrition as an adjunct professor at Howard University. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.

Disclaimer:
Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients so he can focus on educating people as a full time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, and prescription or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Soda consumption can cause weight gain and other damaging health effects. The high spike in soda consumption in Mexico may even be the cause behind the country surpassing the United States in obesity.

[KirbyYoung]

The cheap things in life become expensive in the future.

[marknonesa]

When I decided to lose weight first thing I gave up is Soda. That alone is a great start to improving your lifestyle.

[thisisallthereis]

America: We're #1!
Mexico: Hold my Horchata.

[digikpkm]

Mexican here. Since I was a child I had soda (coca cola) with every meal. In my teenage years I was so tired of it that I decided to drink water while having lunch instead, the sensation was so strange that I wanted vomit.
Now I am in my late 20s, did stop drinking soda ( I have a can per month). I went from soda to juice, to sweet tea, to tea, to water. I drink water most if the time now.

[sonyawilliams]

I live in California and I was just telling my fiancé nearly every Mexican child I see is overweight and accompanied by an orange soda in hand. Soda wasn’t allowed in my house growing up and I will definitely keep that tradition going.

[alonsz]

Some people get offended when I tell them the damages that soda causes to the body specially when talking about Caca Cola, there's a serious addiction problem to soda in Mexico.

[eduardoguerrero]

Greeting from Mexico, your videos saved my life I reversed my diabetes been on keto almost a year I wish we could get your products in mexico I am grateful to you Dr.Berg you are appreciated and loved

[bigkurz]

Yeah I have a friend who was overweight as a child. He just quit drinking cokes and now he’s not overweight at all. And that’s literally all he did.

[daryldixon]

My Mexican buddy in HS was obese but he seriously hardly ate anything but drank like, 5-8 cans of cola a day. He cut it out because eventually he realized soda was causing stomach upset. Lost over 70lbs in a matter of months and actually ended up sorta skinny lol

[Absent_name]

I agree with this. I stopped drinking soda but when I had it two days in a row for a treat... I gained a whole size in my body in a couple of days!

[aware]

People don’t recognize me nowadays and are surprised to see me. They are like wow you must have lost at least 50 lbs, what did you do? I say Keto and IF. Now a few of my friends are on Keto after seeing my results. I didn’t tell them to do it, but they come up to me and say I inspired them to go on Keto. I didn’t know I could do that.

[rosamoreno]

Every meal contains an excessive amount of carbs and sugar

[sylvainster]

I’m glad it wasn’t the Avocados fault! 😂👋🤪

[adamcollier]

Soda, I travel there for work sometimes, the coke there uses real cane sugar, not high fructose corn syrup so it does taste better than in the US. But it’s still poison.

[yowgyrl]

We had soda when I was a kid so rarely that it was literally a treat when we had one.

[maxibake]

So sad, & So glad I've never had a thing for Soda, nor wish too. 🤗 Thank you muchly for sharing this important information with us all, & take care of yourself to. ❤🙂🐶

[ArmyNurseCorps-uc]

I live in Morelia, MX; and it is sad that people seems to be proud to carry all that weight. 30 years ago most of my neighbors walk or ride a bicycle; now 3/4 of them own cars.

[davetinoco]

Dr Berg, beside the cola we also have something in Mexico called Vitamin T...you know, tacos, tortas, tamales...

[ellev]

When we use to visit my grandparents in Ensenada, we walked everywhere to run errands. Now we drive. Yea sodas are big. Sad.

[justpassinthru]

I've wondered if their food has been affected like ours with gmo, Roundup and the industrialization process...