Study: 90% of adults will be overweight by 2030

Ireland’s obesity crisis will be a full-blown epidemic by 2030 according to a report which projects that nine in every 10 adults will be either overweight or obese by that date.

For the first time, academics here have applied an internationally recognised foresight model first developed in Britain to project our obesity rates for more than two decades.

Obesity estimated to cost Ireland over 5 billion euro by 2030- Foresight model in Ireland http://t.co/bRV67HGVli @publichealthie @UCC

— ASOI (@ASOIreland) November 21, 2013