More Than Half Of Today's American Kids Will Be Obese By Age 35, Harvard Study Projects

WBUR reports:

A new Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health study projects that if current tends continue, more than 57 percent of today's youth will be obese at age 35.

Currently, about one in five schoolchildren is considered obese.

Some recent findings have been encouraging: Obesity rates have dropped a bit in children under 5, and stabilized from ages 6 to 11.

But obesity has kept rising in teens and adults. Put early weight gain together with later weight gain, and the future is looking heavy — strikingly heavy — for today's kids, the study in the New England Journal of Medicine finds. It used new simulation models to predict long-term weight gain.

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