This covers an article from the New England Journal of Medicine. Ward and his associates developed projections based on NHANES (National Health And Nutrition Survey) and the Behavioral Risk Factor Survey in the early 1990s. The bottom line: By 2030, over half of the people in the US will have a BMI over 30. Moreover, around 1 in 4 would have a BMI greater than 35, and that's called morbid obesity. (Morbid means it's having immediate & obvious terrible effects on health.) While the methods used were sound, I am optimistic we can still prevent such things from happening.
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