According to a U.N. study released yesterday, it’s no wonder why women are dying of eating disorders in Brazil. Spain’s El País reports that the South American country is the world leader in production — and consumption — of weight loss drugs. They even beat the U.S.

The number of people in Brasil obsessed with achieving the perfect body is three times that of the United States. For the Brazilian Health Minister, the data from the report “is alarming”. The rise in consumption of weight loss products in Brazil could be attributed to, according to the U.N. report, the level of internal production, given that in 2005 98.5% of the total supply of the drug Anfepramona, used all over the world to lose weight, was made in Brazil.

According to the report, Argentina is a close second to Brazil in the consumption department, making them the second in the world for the use of appetite suppressants.

Via / El País