Almost a quarter of the world’s population will be obese by 2045 (Congress, healthcare)

[Suburban_Guy]

Big is beautiful

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/al...045-2018-05-24

Obesity is a global epidemic.

That’s according to new research presented this week at the 2018 Congress on Obesity in Vienna, Austria. Nearly one-quarter (22%) of the people in the world will be obese by 2045, up from 14% in 2017, and one in eight will have type 2 diabetes, up from 9% in 2017, it concluded.

[middle-aged mom]

The US leads the way in the developed world. 75% of adults are overweight/ obese. From the link, " adult obesity exceeds 30% in 20 states and surpassed 35% in 3 states, Arkansas, West Virgina and Mississippi.

No way to reduce US healthcare costs when so many of us are overweight/ obese and growing.