{"id":918,"date":"2008-08-11T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/the-year-2048-every-american-is-fat\/"},"modified":"2008-08-11T15:01:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T20:01:51","slug":"the-year-2048-every-american-is-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/the-year-2048-every-american-is-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year 2048: Every American is Fat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the highest percentage of Americans you can imagine being overweight at any given time? With numbers trending up for the last several decades, will it peak? Well, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20080806\/hl_nm\/overweight40_dc\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"obesity rates\">a government-funded study<\/a> it&#8217;s projected to be 100 percent of the population.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/obesity_1.jpg\" title=\"Obesity\" alt=\"Obesity\" align=\"right\" height=\"243\" width=\"168\" \/>Of course this is ludicrous if taken literally. You&#8217;d have to think that there would cease to be athletes, professional and amateur, and that everyone else who is dedicated to healthy living would go the way of the dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<p>But take the warning seriously for what it portends &#8211; we still haven&#8217;t peaked! That isn&#8217;t just bad for every individual. One must wonder where the breaking point will be with regards to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/kids-have-to-go-on-weight-loss-drugs\/\" title=\"health care costs\" target=\"_blank\">health care costs<\/a>. You think your health care is expensive now, just wait until 85 percent of the population is overweight. We&#8217;re already to the to the two-thirds mark.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say if the current trend continues, we&#8217;ll be there by 2030. And the estimated health care cost for just the obesity-related issues is $957 billion in 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the highest percentage of Americans you can imagine being overweight at any given time? With numbers trending up for the last several decades, will it peak? Well, according to a government-funded study it&#8217;s projected to be 100 percent of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/the-year-2048-every-american-is-fat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-health-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}