A new study from John Hopkins University has predicted that by 2015 75% of Americans could be obese - making fat the normal state of the US.
A team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore examined 20 studies published in journals and looked at national surveys of weight and behavior for their analysis, published in the journal Epidemiologic Reviews.
"Obesity is a public health crisis. If the rate of obesity and overweight continues at this pace, by 2015, 75 per cent of adults and nearly 24 per cent of US children and adolescents will be overweight or obese," Dr. Youfa Wang, who led the study, said in a statement.
Studies show that 66 per cent of US adults were overweight or obese in 2003 and 2004. An alarming 80 per cent of black women aged 40 or over are overweight and 50 per cent are obese.
"Obesity is likely to continue to increase, and if nothing is done, it will soon become the leading preventable cause of death in the United States."
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There was a story about how Americans are "too fat for x-rays," according to radiology researchers.
Increasing numbers of Americans are becoming too fat to fit into X-ray machines, US researchers report.
The nation's rising obesity problems mean many citizens are not only too large for scanners but they have too much fat for the rays to penetrate.
Do you think by 2030, fat people will comprise 90% of the population? Then by 2040 it will rise to 95% or even more?
A team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore examined 20 studies published in journals and looked at national surveys of weight and behavior for their analysis, published in the journal Epidemiologic Reviews.
"Obesity is a public health crisis. If the rate of obesity and overweight continues at this pace, by 2015, 75 per cent of adults and nearly 24 per cent of US children and adolescents will be overweight or obese," Dr. Youfa Wang, who led the study, said in a statement.
Studies show that 66 per cent of US adults were overweight or obese in 2003 and 2004. An alarming 80 per cent of black women aged 40 or over are overweight and 50 per cent are obese.
"Obesity is likely to continue to increase, and if nothing is done, it will soon become the leading preventable cause of death in the United States."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a … ge_id=1811
There was a story about how Americans are "too fat for x-rays," according to radiology researchers.
Increasing numbers of Americans are becoming too fat to fit into X-ray machines, US researchers report.
The nation's rising obesity problems mean many citizens are not only too large for scanners but they have too much fat for the rays to penetrate.
Do you think by 2030, fat people will comprise 90% of the population? Then by 2040 it will rise to 95% or even more?
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