Fat Forecast: 42% of Americans Obese by 2030

About 32 million more Americans will become obese by 2030, upping obesity rates to 42 percent of the U.S. population, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The report also predicts that the proportion of Americans who are severely obese, meaning more than 100 pounds overweight, will reach 11 percent, about double the current rate.

The report's authors give a sobering price tag for these predictions: such an increase would create $550 billion of obesity-related health care costs.

Eric Finkelstein, one of the authors of the report, said the prospect of such increasing rates, particularly those of severely obese Americans, is alarming since efforts aimed at helping people lose weight have so far proven relatively ineffective.

"Their weight continues to increase. Over the last 10 years, it has gone up tremendously," he said in a press conference. "This is a group at great risk of health complications, and yet they are increasing at an even greater rate than the rate of obesity."

The report was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and was released at the CDC's Weight of the Nation conference today, a gathering focused on the impact of the obesity epidemic. The authors analyzed data collected from each state and made projections based on a number of factors influencing obesity rates, including the cost of healthy and unhealthy foods, gas prices and Internet access.

"Predicting obesity is tricky and no one variable showed up as causing obesity," Finkelstein said.

Although recent data suggest that rates of obesity have reached a plateau, current rates of obesity are still alarmingly high. About 34 percent of adults are currently obese, creating a whole host of expensive, chronic health problems, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

The report's authors said a number of factors could lead to the predicted rise in obesity. About two-thirds of Americans are currently overweight and could continue to gain weight and move into the obese category.

Dr. William Dietz, one of the study's authors and director of the CDC's division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, also noted that children who are currently overweight or obese will likely be a major source of the increasing rates.

"We know that about 50 percent of severe obesity in adults is consequence of obesity in childhood," he said.

Currently about 17 percent of children and adolescents are obese.

Anti-obesity measures such as better urban design, access to recreational facilities, workplace health promotion and new drugs could help reign in the problem, the authors noted.

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A few of the many benefits of hCG

The Many Benefits Of 
hCG for Weight Loss

It was discovered that along with substantial weight loss and the ability to keep it off after the program was complete, there were many more benefits experienced from being on this program.

Here are a Few:

a) No loss of muscle mass

b) Normalized the thyroid gland

c) rebuilds the adrenaline glands

d) balances the hormones out put

e) replaces the good cushioning "fat pad" throughout the body

f) normalizes cholesterol levels

g) normalizes appetite demands

h) improves ones "singing voice"

i) gets rid of large pot belly on both male and female

j) reduces fat deposits on double chins


k) lose between .08-2 pounds per day

l) resets hypothalamus and metabolism to make weight maintaining long term

m) targets problem areas

n) increases skin elasticity

o) skin tightens and refirms in areas that would normally result in sagging skin

Is hCG Safe?

Questions about hCG are flooding like a dam broke! Yes, the FDA and FTC are looking into the safety of homeopathic hCG trying to pull it off the shelves. No, pharmaceutical hCG is not included in this worry. hCG prescribed by a doctor is not in the threatening section to people taking it. It is closely monitored.

The effects of hCG can seem too good to be true. You inject the hormone each day and eat certain foods all in hopes of losing sometimes a pound a day. It's real and it's safe... if done in the correct way.

Doctors and nutritionists argue that going on a low calorie diet without hCG will help lose weight as well. Yes, it will, but you will be losing muscle instead of fat. hCG helps with the loss of fat and hopes to reset the body's metabolism. The person cannot go back to eating 12 cupcakes a day, but they should be able to have a better mindset to make better choices.

Homeopathic versions bought at the store have little to almost none of the actual hormone in them. This means going on that low calorie diet is just a diet. There is no hormone helping and the patient will probably gain it all back. Because homeopathic supplements are not regulated by the FDA, no governing organization is forcing these companies to prove that what is listed on the label is actually in the bottle.

Prescription hCG is safe mainly because a doctor is monitoring your body each week. If things are not working or something is making you unsteady the doctors will change it. The diet is something that can be flexible when under the correct supervision. It is not a miracle cure though. There is nothing that can make your body be able to indulge anything and suddenly burn it off. After the hCG diet is over the consultants and doctors slowly introduce certain foods back into the body. It is then up to the patient to keep their mind in place and their activity level high. Even with a reset metabolism a body can fall into the holes of dieting again.