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08/07/2008: "All Americans overweight by 2048"

If the trends of those years continue, the researchers estimate that 86 percent of American adults will be overweight by 2030, with an obesity rate of 51 percent. By 2048, all U.S. adults could be at least mildly overweight.

Weight problems will be most acute among African-Americans and Mexican- Americans, the study projects. All black women could be overweight by 2034, according to the researchers, as could more than 90 percent of Mexican-American men.

[ There will still be some people with the intelligence and will power not to get so fat. When everyone becomes too stupid to manage that then various factors will have interrupted the food supply anyway and there will be mass starvation. ]

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26058862/