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Harvard Study Says More Than Half of US Kids will be Obese by age 35

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John Vizcaino/Reuters A new Harvard study projects that more than 57% of today's kids will be obese by their 35th birthday. Skyrocketing obesity rates around the globe are being blamed for higher cancer rates. Researchers say too much screen time and bad diets are largely to blame. More American kids than ever are expected to carry a heavy load into adulthood. In a study being published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at Harvard's school of public health extrapolated future obesity trends based on thousands of children's current heights and weights.

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