Coming to you from a new study funded by the fed’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is the crazy suggestion that in 40 years, if current trends continue, all adults will be overweight.

Well, I’ll beg to differ on this one, because that is a physiological and genetic impossibility, right off the top. And Dr. Lan Liang who participated in the study, and who is from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality as much admitted it. She says, though, “that is the direction we’re going."

The projection is based on government survey data from between 1970 and 2004. The projected trend shows 51 percent of adults as being obese by 2030. By 2048, they said, all American adults will be at least mildly overweight. Breaking this down, they have come up with the most extreme percentage being awarded to African-American women — a whopping 100 percent will supposedly be overweight by 2034. Moreover, supposedly 90 percent Mexican-American males will also be overweight by that time.

Along with the increase in American midsections will be the rising cost of healthcare to deal with it. According to the agency’s estimation, $957 billion will be needed by 2030 to handle health problems related to all this obesity.

The proposed solutions?  Well, noting that just telling people to eat less and exercise more has little or no effect, Dr. Liang is suggesting that it will take a “societal effort,” (societal, meaning government?) to get people to walk regularly or eat better. She would like to see more pedestrian-friendly communities as well as more healthful and lower calorie offerings from the food industry.

I smell new legislation simmering on the back burner.

But it may not be needed if the dollar keeps dropping like the proverbial bombshell and people can no longer afford to indulge in the unhealthy, fat-laden, overly processed, fast-food scene. You’ll see an abrupt turn around when survival gardens become necessary and people return to homegrown fruits and vegetables.

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