Americans Will Continue To Make Each Other Fat

It’s like a zombie movie, except instead of human flesh we will be eating Doritos: “Two per cent of the population became obese each year, with a person’s chance of becoming obese increasing by 0.5 per cent for each contact they had with an obese person. Taking into account recovery rates from obesity and extrapolating to the wider population, Hill’s model predicts obesity levels will plateau in about 40 years, at which time 42 per cent of Americans will be obese.”