New Report: Adult Obesity Rates Climbing
Posted by on October 08, 2012
New Report Finds Adult Obesity Rates Could Exceed 60 Percent in 13 States by 2030
Related health care costs could climb by more than 20 percent in nine states.
The number of obese adults, along with related disease rates and health care costs, are on course to increase dramatically in every state in the country over the next 20 years, according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2012, a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America’s Health.
The report forecasts adult obesity rates in each state by 2030 and the likely resulting rise in obesity-related disease rates and health care costs.
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