Half of US will be obese by 2030: Report

As the obesity epidemic continues to escalate, a new study projects that half of the US will be obese by 2030 unless measures to stifle, monitor and prevent obesity are adopted into public policy.Currently, one in three American adults is obese, with 99 million cases reported. According to a new study published in a US magazine, obesity is projected to include half of the US population by 2030 if current trends continue.While forecasts show that obesity is on the rise, researchers from Columbia University used data from the past four decades with qualitative trends taken into account.The study showed that 164 million Americans will be obese within the next two decades along with an additional 8 million cases of diabetes, 6.8 million cases of heart disease and stroke, and a half-million cases of cancer to be reported.At the rate were looking at right now, its a dire prediction, told Claire Wang, of Columbia University.