A new study found that by 2035, almost 50% of Americans will be medically obese. In 1990, that number was just 20%. Nonwhite Americans are much more likely to suffer.

On Wednesday, a new study published in JAMA by researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle projected that by 2035, nearly half of all American adults, about 126 million individuals, will be living with obesity.

The study draws on data from more than 11 million participants via the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health and Nutrition Examination and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and from the independent Gallup Daily Survey.

The projections show a striking increase in the prevalence of obesity over the past few decades in the U.S. In 1990, only 19.3% of U.S. adults were obese, according to the study. That figure more than doubled to 42.5% by 2022, and is forecast to reach 46.9% by 2035.

  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    the marketing criteria that convinces them to pay a lot more for it than other oils.

    hence why they also are going on about calories not being a thing, and basically telling people to go by the most expensive foods as a means to lose weight.

    a lot of ‘experts’ on nutrition are just welathy dumbasses who believe marketing slop and are under the guise that if they pay 20/lb for salmon it’s ‘better’ than chicken that’s 5/lb