Nearly Half Of US Adults Will Be Obese Within A Decade, Researchers Project

“Nearly half of American adults will be obese within a decade and one-quarter will be severely so,” researchers predict in findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Reuters (12/18, Emery) reports that “in addition, severe obesity – and the serious health problems and extra healthcare costs associated with it – will disproportionately affect women, low-income adults, non-Hispanic black adults and states bordering the lower half of the Mississippi River.” Investigators arrived at these conclusions after using “more than 20 years of data from 6.3 million adults to project into 2030.” https://apnews.com/c36ead95eea05714347c0552b1cd1d73