Half of USA to be Fat in 2030 - Neatorama

Fat? Don't worry - you're in good company ... or soon will be.

According to the medical journal The Lancet, half of America will be obese in just two decades:

These trends project 65 million more obese adults in the USA and 11 million more obese adults in the UK by 2030, consequently accruing an additional 6-8.5 million cases of diabetes, 5.7-7.3 million cases of heart disease and stroke, 492,000-669,000 additional cases of cancer, and 26-55 million quality-adjusted life years forgone for USA and UK combined.

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Don't worry everybody!!
Before 2030, scientist will invent food that is better tasting that anything we could imagine, inexpensive to produce and has absolutely no nutritional value what-so-ever. Ha. Ha.

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And the other half will just be "big boned".

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Well, we'll have something like 7 billion people by then, perhaps if we're actively killing ourselves off that's only a good thing.

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85% of the population in the US right now is fat, so I guess by 2030 the trend will be reversing.

BTW, I'm the real Nobody. Not that impostor above.

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this is so wrong...we all know no one will survive 2012..pfftt....i guess i feel bad for eating that bread tonight....now i must go start a eating disorder so i dont become one of those fat americans.

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