July 29, 2008

Study Suggests 86 Percent Of Americans Could Be Overweight Or Obese By 2030

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Most adults in the U.S. will be overweight or obese by 2030, with related health care spending projected to be as much as $956.9 billion, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Their results are published in the July 2008 online issue of Obesity. "National survey data show that the prevalence of overweight and obese adults in the U.

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