Simon Cox
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first heard Jul 2012
last heard Jul 2012
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Well, it's a pretty scary thought, isn't it?
But the important thing, I suppose, is, is it true?
That number comes from a report in 2007 on obesity from Foresight.
They're
a part of the civil service which looks into the future to predict threats and problems.
And the lead author of that study was Professor Clim McPherson from Oxford.
And at the time, Professor McPherson said the data showed obesity was rising inexorably.
And if it continued to do so, 90% of us would indeed be overweight or obese.
by 2050, but that's a very big if, because even back then when the report was released, there was already data available which seemed to suggest that obesity may not be rising inexorably.
We've had the 2005 figures since you published.
What have they shown?
It's quite interesting.
When we started looking at 2005 for the first time a few months ago, I suppose my main interest was, are these numbers still going up for the obese and the overweight?
And it turned out they weren't still going up.
They were kind of a little bit down, a little bit flat.
But then you look at it and you say, well, OK, there's a lot of random variation in these data.
That could be this year's random fluctuation.
I suppose it could be a blip this year, but if it carried on for another couple of years, then presumably we'd be predicting a very different future.
We would, and we'd also be learning something about what it is that makes those slopes change.
It was, and of course we've got a lot more data now.
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