Study Predicts Obesity Apocalypse by 2030...
The study, released this week in the journal Obesity, suggests that by the year 2030, nearly every American will be overweight or obese.
Currently, figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put the prevalence of overweight and obesity in adults at about 66 percent. I have heard reports that it is has high as 80% already! But lead study author Dr. Youfa Wang of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore says that if current overweight and obesity trends continue, 86 percent of Americans could be overweight or obese by the year 2030. A recent article and video that was recently on ABC News showed that by 2030 it would be 100% of all Americans.
"The results of the study show clearly how the future situation might become if current trends continue," Wang says.
Wang says that the increase in metabolic disease and other weight-related conditions could have a catastrophic toll on public health -- and on the public pocket. If these predictions come to bear, Wang and his colleagues estimate that the additional overweight and obesity burden could add up to an extra $860 billion to $956 billion per year in health expenditures to treat these conditions. All told, this would mean that $1 in every $6 spent on health care would be spent as a result of the overweight and obesity.
"Given that people in the U.S. continue to eat more and move less, I am not surprised at these findings," says Madelyn Fernstrom, founding director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Weight Management Center.
Dr. Jana Klauer, a New York City-based physician and author of "How the Rich Get Thin," agrees.
"As a nation we have become too fat," she says. "The reasons are complex but can easily be summarized by: too much food and too little exercise. Highly palatable, cheap foods are abundant. ... The focus on exercise is absent in most American's lives. Yes, I think the predictions will come to pass."
Let me repeat that second to last sentence:
"The focus on exercise is absent in most American's lives."
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