A new study found that by 2035, almost 50% of Americans will be medically obese. In 1990, that number was just 20%. Nonwhite Americans are much more likely to suffer.

On Wednesday, a new study published in JAMA by researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle projected that by 2035, nearly half of all American adults, about 126 million individuals, will be living with obesity.

The study draws on data from more than 11 million participants via the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health and Nutrition Examination and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and from the independent Gallup Daily Survey.

The projections show a striking increase in the prevalence of obesity over the past few decades in the U.S. In 1990, only 19.3% of U.S. adults were obese, according to the study. That figure more than doubled to 42.5% by 2022, and is forecast to reach 46.9% by 2035.

  • bss03@infosec.pub
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    9 hours ago

    I only do 2 days a week lifting, that’s the NIH recommendation. Granny wants to do 3, but that doesn’t currently fit into the rest of my life.

    I would do cardio every day, but things get in the way of that often, too.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      because you are working out too much. you should be working out like half of that or less.

      NIH recommends like 20m of moderate activity, a day. You are probably doing 10x that. their version of lifting weights is like 10lb dumbells and 5lb ankle weights. not full body lifting.

      it sounds like you’re training for athletic competition, not exercise. most people who exercise regularly can’t even do 10K on a nordic track, and you’re doing it in zone 2.