Posts Tagged ‘fatpocalypse’
The Fatpocalypse Is Coming
A new study claims that in 2018 an astonishing 43% of Americans will be obese.
Monday Night Links
* After a brief flirtation with “top five” status, Brüno is back to being a box-office disappointment.
* Top ten comics cities. #2: Chris Ware’s Chicago. Via MetaFilter.
* xkcd tackles the frighteningly addictive power of TV Tropes.
* SF by the numbers. Via Boing Boing.
* Also in the New Yorker: profiles of Al Franken and Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa, last seen ratifying nature’s right to exist.
* And allow me to offer my heartiest gerrycanavan.blogspot.com welcome to North Carolina’s newest resident.
In the Future, Everyone Is Fat
Fatopia? Fatpocalypse? Can it really be true that 86 percent of Americans will be overweight or obese by 2030?
“National survey data show that the prevalence of overweight and obese adults in the U.S. has increased steadily over the past three decades,” said Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, lead author of the study and associate professor with the Bloomberg School’s Center for Human Nutrition. “If these trends continue, more than 86 percent of adults will be overweight or obese by 2030 with approximately 96 percent of non-Hispanic black women and 91 percent of Mexican-American men affected. This would result in 1 of every 6 health care dollars spent in total direct health care costs paying for overweight and obesity-related costs.”