Apparently, it seems that Mexico's been moving up the global food chain. Free trade hasn’t just brought in more dollars but bigger waistlines and diabetes cases to boot. Mexico really is looking more and more like the US now, with the world’s fastest growing rates in both these correlated health concerns.
Most notable is that the most affected demographic is that along the Rio Grande. On both sides of the border, obesity and diabetes rates are alarmingly over the respective national averages. In Mexico though, the problems shadow the whole of the industrialized north.
I wonder if Mexicans are really eating themselves to death because they’ve always had bad eating habits or if they’ve found and adopted our fast food style Tex-Mex. Either way, I’m sure the international community will blame us in a few years for this one, too.
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