Four out of five men and women in the United States will be overweight or obese by 2050 if current trends hold, a new study warns.
About 213 million Americans aged 25 and older will be carrying around excess weight within 25 years, along with more than 45 million children and young adults between the ages of 5 and 24, researchers reported Nov. 14 inAll these extra pounds will create a crisis of chronic illness in the nation, said lead study author Emmanuela Gakidou, a professor with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
“Our analysis lays bare the decades-long failure to tackle the growing overweight and obesity epidemic in the USA,” Gakidou said. For example, two-thirds of men in West Virginia and Kentucky and two-thirds of women across 12 states are expected to be obese by 2050. Especially high rates of obesity are predicted for Mississippi, West Virginia, Arkansas and Illinois.About two in five women born in the 1960s were obese by age 45, but the same proportion had become obese by age 30 for those born in the 1980s, researchers found.
The rising tide of adolescent obesity is projected to reach the highest levels among young adult men in Oklahoma , Mississippi and West Virginia in 2050, and affect at least half of young adult women living in Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Alabama, results show.
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