{"id":76246,"date":"2025-03-04T14:50:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/over-50-of-adults-worldwide-predicted-to-be-obese-or-overweight-by-2050-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T14:50:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:50:55","slug":"over-50-of-adults-worldwide-predicted-to-be-obese-or-overweight-by-2050-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/over-50-of-adults-worldwide-predicted-to-be-obese-or-overweight-by-2050-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 50% of adults worldwide predicted to be obese or overweight by 2050 | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of all adults and a third of children, teenagers and young adults around the world are predicted <!--more--> to be overweight or obese by 2050, according to a study in The Lancet.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers warn that obesity levels are predicted to accelerate rapidly during the remainder of this decade, particularly in lower-income countries.<\/p>\n<p>The study predicts that China (627 million), India (450 million) and the US (214 million) will be the countries with the biggest populations of overweight or obese people in 2050.<\/p>\n<p>And population growth means that forecasters are predicting the number in sub-Saharan Africa will rise by more than 250% to 522 million.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of all adults and a third of children, teenagers and young adults around the world are predicted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}