From MSNBC.com -
"Obesity is a public health crisis. If the rate of obesity and overweight continues at this pace, by 2015, 75 percent of adults and nearly 24 percent of U.S. children and adolescents will be overweight or obese."
-Dr. Youfa Wang, Johns Hopkins University
For black women, the numbers are even more staggering. 80 percent of those aged 40 and over are overweight, and 50 percent are obese. Yikes.
One of the researchers of the JHU study makes a dire warning at the end of the article in stating that, soon, obesity will be the number one preventable cause of death in the US.
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