More than half of American children set to be obese by age 35, study finds

• Harvard researchers predict 57% of children will grow up obese
• ‘It’s definitely a shocking and sobering number’ says lead author

More than half of American children – 57% – will be obese by the age of 35 if current trends continue, according to new projections by Harvard researchers.

Half of Americans expected to become obese will develop the condition as children, researchers found in the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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