Seventy-five percent of adults and 24 percent of children and adolescents in the United States will be overweight or obese within the next eight years, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Human Nutrition and published in Epidemiologic Reviews.

Researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 20 prior studies and four national surveys. They found that the proportion of the population that is overweight or obese has increased by an average of 0.3 to 0.8 percentage points per year since the 1960s. While the obesity percentage was then only 13 percent, it had increased to 32 percent by 2004. Researchers project that it will reach 41 percent by 2015. Among children and adolescents, 16 percent are currently overweight, while 34 percent are at risk.

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