* [Economic impact of overweight and obesity to surpass $4 trillion by 2035](https://www.worldobesity.org/news/economic-impact-of-overweight-and-obesity-to-surpass-4-trillion-by-2035)
* [51% Of People Alive In 2035 Will Be Obese Or Overweight: Report](https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/51-of-people-alive-in-2035-will-be-obese-or-overweight-report/)
* [42% of Americans living with obesity](https://www.axios.com/2023/03/23/norc-share-americans-obesity)
* [Obesity or Overweight Now Affect 1 in 3 Youth](https://www.aecf.org/blog/obesity-or-overweight-now-affect-1-in-3-youth-how-experts-are-responding)
* [Britain’s diet is more deadly than Covid](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/britains-diet-is-more-deadly-than-covid-jc33p0krj)
* [More deaths in England and Scotland may be attributable to obesity and excess body fat than smoking](https://www.biomedcentral.com/about/press-centre/science-press-releases/11-02-21)
* [Cleveland Clinic Study Finds Obesity as Top Cause of Preventable Life-Years Lost](https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2017/04/22/cleveland-clinic-study-finds-obesity-top-cause-preventable-life-years-lost/)
* [New study finds poor diet kills more people globally than tobacco and high blood pressure](https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-releases/new-study-finds-poor-diet-kills-more-people-globally-tobacco-and)
* [New study finds possible link between ultra-processed foods and depression](https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2023/09/new-study-finds-possible-link-between-ultra-processed-foods-and)
* [Studies link ultra-processed foods to heart disease, bowel cancer and death](https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/two-new-studies-link-ultra-processed-foods-with-heart-disease-bowel-cancer-and-death/)
* [Ultra-processed food consumption, cancer risk and cancer mortality: a large-scale prospective analysis within the UK Biobank](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00017-2/fulltext)
* [Ultra-processed foods make up around 60% of adults’ energy intake in the UK and US. For children under 14 in the UK, this rises to 67%.](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonathanwolf_ultra-processed-foods-make-up-around-60-activity-7057347735322009602-1wQi)
* [About one in five Americans eats the diet of 80% of their calories. It’s a very typical diet for a British or an American teenager or young person.](https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-science-behind-food-and-dangers)
* [Up to Half of U.S. Premature Deaths Are Preventable](https://www.prb.org/resources/up-to-half-of-u-s-premature-deaths-are-preventable-behavioral-factors-key/)
Let those figures sink in a little bit, IMHO it’s literally a sinking ship with whole bunch of heavyweight champions.
While the Brits and the Yanks might be considered “leaders of the pack” at the moment, the rest of the world should be playing “ketchup” since obesity could be exported by transnational food corporations easily:
[https://www.onlymyhealth.com/side-effects-of-tomato-ketchup-1697900568](https://www.onlymyhealth.com/side-effects-of-tomato-ketchup-1697900568)
>However, ultra-processed foods like bottled ketchup can prove to be extremely harmful to your health. As per Harvard Health Publishing (HHP), researchers calculated a 25% higher risk for dementia in people eating the largest amounts of ultra-processed foods like ketchup.
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