Over the past three decades, there has been a startling increase in the prevalence of obesity across the U.S., at least doubling in adult men and women (aged 25 and older) and older female and male adolescents (aged 15–24 years) since 1990, with the number of people living with overweight and obesity reaching over 208 million in 2021—a trend set to continue in the coming decades without significant reform, according to a major new analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study Collaborator Network, published in The Lancet.
Without immediate action, nearly 260 million people in the US predicted to be overweight or obese by 2050
