The U.S. ranks 56th in cardiovascular disease deaths

According to the World Health Organization, in 2002 the United States had a cardiovascular disease death rate of 317 per 100,000 people, which made the United States rank fifty-sixth in that category. Ukraine ranked first, with a cardiovascular disease death rate of 1032.4 per 100,000.

All of the top ten countries in this category are in Eastern Europe.

The U.S. ranks 35th in animal fat

According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Americans eat six kilograms of animal fat per person per year, enough to make the  United States tied for thirty-fifth in that category, along with Australia, the Bahamas, Fiji, Samoa, and the Seychelles. Hungary ranked first, consuming twenty-seven kilograms of animal fat per person per year.