State demographer Karl Eschbach, the study’s author, predicts that 46 percent of Dallas County adults will be obese by 2040 without a big prevention push.
Eschbach expressed alarm that statewide, more than one-fifth of adults 18 to 25 were obese in 2007 – up from 10 percent in 2000.
“The increases are of tremendous concern,” said Eschbach, a demography professor at the University of Texas-San Antonio.
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