75 percent could be overweight in U.S. by 2015

If people keep gaining weight at the current rate, fat will be the norm by 2015, with 75 percent of U.S. adults overweight and 41 percent obese, U.S. researchers predicted in a study published in the journal Epidemiologic Reviews. Studies show that 66 percent of U.S. adults were overweight or obese in 2003 and 2004. Sixteen percent of U.S. children and adolescents are overweight and 34 percent are at risk of becoming overweight, according to federal government figures.