One in Eight Now Obese
Over one in eight adults are now obese -- a ratio that has more than doubled since 1975 and will swell to one in five by 2025, a major survey reported Friday.
Of about five billion adults alive in 2014, 641 million were obese, the data showed -- and projected the number will balloon past 1.1 billion in just nine years.
The research warned of a looming crisis of "severe obesity" and disease brought on by high-fat, high-sugar diets causing blood...
Obesity Crisis
Over one in eight adults are now obese -- a ratio that has more than doubled since 1975 and will swell to one in five by 2025, a major survey reported Friday.
Of about five billion adults alive in 2014, 641 million were obese, the data showed -- and projected the number will balloon past 1.1 billion in just nine years.
The research warned of a looming crisis of "severe obesity" and disease brought on by high-fat, high-sugar diets causing blood...
Obesity Crisis