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Seventy-five percent of American Adults Will Be Overweight by 2015, Study Finds

Posted in Diabetes Articles by Jennifer Moore on December 19th, 2007

Note from Connie: As if it wasn't bad enough! By the year 2015, a whopping 75% of American adults and nearly a quarter of American kids will be overweight or obese, according to an alarming study from researchers at the Center for Human Nutrition at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Jennifer Moore brings you more info. The research team drew this frightening conclusion through a meta-analysis of four national surveys and 20 studies. They discovered that the proportion of overweight or obese people has grown by an average of 0.3 to 0.8 percentage points since the 1960s. Back...