Comments by "Johanna S. L. Brushane" (@johannas.l.brushane2518) on "The Sad Story of Nauru: The Fattest Place on Earth" video.

I saw some documentary about obesity, especially among children in some of the Asian countries that have seen relative rapid increase in living standard. It might have been India, but uncertain. The chains that provide the fast food can for them seem as some convenient low key luxury but they had one example (which may be present in other chains in the area where many are favouring a vegetarian diet) of a known pizza franchise that had a faux form of mozzarella that was much higher in calories compared to ordinary which is on pizza you buy from the same brand in USA. The franchise owner claimed he was not aware of it from the start and that he had raised the issue of being able to get normal cheese from their suppliers.
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@suzannekirkwood6392 Could be other factors than formal official agreements. I saw a documentary on a country where especially childhood obesity have gone up quite fast. As I recall it was India but I may recall that wrong, but it was a country in the Asian region where living standards have increased significantly in a relative short time as well, where many who were previously poor have moved up in material standard and the middle-class have also not expanded to income as well as numbers. As this development happened they built more shopping malls and also more of the multinational franchise chains in fastfood have established themselves there. Where a somewhat financial surplus among the population have got people to think of these fast food meals as kind of an affordable luxury (untill they need medical treatment of course). The example they had in the documentary was Domino's, the cheese they had on the pizza there was a higher caloric and more artificial one than the one in USA and the manager/franchise owner could not chose another type of cheese. (Here I think it may be India since a large portion of the population is vegetarian and thus they may have opted to have the "fake cheese" to the pizza in the region).
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