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Heavy Data
A chart accompanying a paper published by BMC Public Health clearly shows the world's distribution of body mass. Not surprisingly, North America comes in first (as in, fattest). In fact, if the population of the rest of the world had the same collective biomass as that of North America, it would be the equivalent of adding 1 billion average-size people to the planet: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/06/daily-chart-11
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