A few thin officers

Mexico City policemen. Image via Nataliallop

Mexico City has ordered 1,300 city police officers to go on a diet. They were weighed and measured in a public ceremony last week, where they also had their blood pressure checked and received dietary tips. “We’re teaching them how to eat,” explained the city’s public safety office.

Mexico, which loves to break records, is on pace to overtake the United States as the world’s fattest nation. Forty percent of the population is overweight and 30 percent obese, according to the health ministry. And Mexico City police officers are even bigger, percentage-wise. The government says seven out of 10 tend are obese.