Scientific Dictatorship - Planned Society

HALF of U.S. population will be obese by 2030 experts predict as the number could swell to 164 million Americans



UK Daily Mail

• By 2030 the number of obese Americans could increase from 99million in 2008 to 164million

• In the U.K. expected increase of 15million to 26million

About half of both men and women in the U.S. will be obese by 2030 if current trends continue, health experts warned today.



Obesity is fast replacing tobacco as the single most important preventable cause of chronic non-communicable diseases, and will add an extra 7.8million cases of diabetes, 6.8million cases of heart disease and stroke, and 539,000 cases of cancer in the U.S. within the next two decades.



Some 32 per cent of men and 35 per cent of women are now obese in the U.S., according to a research team led by Claire Wang at the Mailman School of Public Health in Columbia University in New York...[Full Article]