http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19845784/
* A team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore examined 20 studies published in journals and looked at national surveys of weight and behavior for their analysis. Their research, published in the journal Epidemiologic Reviews, suggests that fat will be the norm by 2015 if people keep gaining weight at the current rate - with 75% of U.S. adults overweight and 41 percent obese.
* "Studies show that 66% of U.S. adults were overweight or obese in 2003 and 2004. An alarming 80%of black women aged 40 or over are overweight and 50% are obese."
* "Sixteen percent of U.S. children and adolescents are overweight and 34% are at risk of becoming overweight, according to federal government figures.
* May Beydoun, who worked on the study, said, "Obesity is likely to continue to increase, and if nothing is done, it will soon become the leading preventable cause of death in the United States."
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