The graphs illustrates the finding of a survey operated by the Department of Health about Britain’s obese population in respect of age and gender with forecasts.
Overall, there are two trends. The first is the number of overweight people of all genders and ages is expected to rise. The other is significant future growths in popularity of this condition in men.
Looking first at the year examined, more adults suffered from obesity than children. For grown-ups, the share tips towards women, with nearly 5 million cases being recorded. This is followed by the staggering count of 4 million incidences for men. The trend is reversed for children. Both are lower than 1 billion, and slightly more boys gained extra kilograms than girls, which are both at around 700 thousand.
Moving forwards seven years, men are projected to be the most vulnerable group to this disease in all. Male adults will experience a half increase of the temporary number, thereby counting nearly 7 billion. As a result, the number of men who contract this disease will outnumber their female counterparts, whose cases are 6 billion. For children, the trend will once again be reversed, with the number of girls severely higher than that of boys. The number of girls will also a third more and end up at 900 thousand, 100 thousand more than that of boys.