The US isn't going to be #1 for long — but this is one record that could be worth giving up: Mexico is on track to eclipse the US as the fattest country within the next 10 years.
Almost half of Mexico's 110 million people are overweight and the number of overweight children has risen by 8 percent every year for the past decade, with Type 2 diabetes skyrocketing as well. The cause?
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Who doesn't look better walking the runway with furry friends?! While there are doggie models at both New York's Fashion Week and Pet Fashion Week, this show took place down in Mexico City. Several pooches donned creations by Cani di Lusso, which I couldn't resist sharing with you – 2058492Check out more cuteness when you .2058492
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Mexico has one of the lowest HIV-infection rates in all of Latin America, at 0.3 percent of the adult population. Unfortunately, the low rate doesn't apply to sex workers or men who have sex with men. Fifteen percent of gay men in Mexico are infected, and sex workers, whose profession is legal in Mexico, often must decide between using protection or making more money without, either way gambling with their survival.
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Barriers — financial and physical — could influence the makeup of newly naturalized Americans. After citizen application rates rose 70 percent, from $440 to $675, half as many people have applied for US citizenship in the beginning of this year compared to last year.
To become eligible for citizenship, a person must be a legal permanent resident who has lived continuously in the US for 5 years.
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Mexico thinks it has the answer to its late or lost mail woes: give the entire system a makeover in hot pink! Pink will paint the Mexico postal service's new logo, uniform, office walls inside and out, as well as coffee mugs and envelopes now on sale at the post office. One official explained: "We want to be very visible .
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In response to the rising numbers of murders and kidnappings throughout Mexico, citizens took to the streets by the hundreds of thousands this weekend to call attention to this problem. The rallies took place in all of Mexico’s 32 states and more than 150,000 gathered in Mexico city alone.
The last straw may have been earlier this week when a dozen decapitated bodies were found in the Yucatan Peninsula.
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While acceptance is growing in the United States, homosexual relationships in Mexico are still very taboo. Because of the stigma, Mexican prisoners with HIV or AIDS is really not a topic for discussion either, including prevention. In fact, many prison administrators deny that sex among inmates exists apart from specifically dedicated conjugal visits.
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Today Mexico’s Supreme Court is deliberating on whether or not to overturn the 2007 law that legalized abortion in Mexico City.
Primarily meant to help the city’s poorest women, who had received one too many botched abortions at illegal clinics, the law has been met with unrelenting resistance in the Catholic country. Eighty-five percent of gynecologists have declared themselves conscientious objectors, and hospital staff members have been reported as hostile and demeaning, creating unnecessary impediments for women.
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