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.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    why are you talking about weight when you should be measuring body fat?

    Weight lifters weigh more because muscle is heavy.

    • bss03@infosec.pub
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      18 hours ago

      Yeah, I should get an 8-contact machine for home to get good BF% numbers.

      That said, it’s not hard to find the excess fat on my body, so while I don’t have good measurements, I know my BF% is also still too high. I have promised myself that if I can get a visible “6-pack”, I’ll stop worrying about weight so much, but I doubt that will happen soon.

      Weight and BMI are easier for most people (including myself) to habitually track, especially individually. But I agree that BF% is the better metric.