Researchers stressed the importance of prevention versus treatment to reverse the trend
in the next 10 years if the nation does not start adopting healthier eating habits, a new study says., meaning they’re more than 100 lbs. overweight with a Body Mass Index of 40 or higher. analyzed 26 years of BMI data from over 6.2 million adults who answered survey questions from the Centers for Disease Control.
The results showed that states will have an obesity rate around 60 percent by 2030. Currently, every state is over 35 percent except for two, Colorado and Hawaii. Mississippi, which has the highest obesity rate in the country, is almost at 50 percent.Researchers said that black, non-Hispanic women with incomes of less than $50,000 a year will be at the highest risk of becoming severely obese.
Zachary Ward, lead author of the study and a programmer/analyst at Harvard Chan School’s Center for Health Decision Science, said that “prevention is going to be key to better managing this epidemic.”Ward also said that the rising rates of obesity could strain Medicaid funding, hurting low-income people who are already at risk.
“The high projected prevalence of severe obesity among low-income adults has substantial implications for future Medicaid costs,”. “In addition, the effect of weight stigma could have far-reaching implications for socioeconomic disparities, as severe obesity becomes the most common BMI category among low-income adults in nearly every state.”
Ward said that if Americans are proactive and change their eating habits now, it will be easier to reverse this trend.. “It’s really hard to treat obesity. So prevention really has to be at the forefront of efforts to combat this growing epidemic.”
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