Study Estimates That Half of US Adults Will Be Obese by 2030

Study Estimates That Half of US Adults Will Be Obese by 2030
A beam scale in New York on April 3, 2018. A report released on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, states nearly half of American adults will be obese within a decade and one-quarter will be severely so. Patrick Sison/AP
The Associated Press
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There’s no way to sugarcoat this news: Nearly half of American adults will be obese within a decade, and one-quarter will be severely so, a new report predicts.

It corrects for a weakness in previous estimates that may have made the problem seem not as big as it really is. Those estimates often relied on national health surveys, and people tend to understate their weight in those.