A news research has said that obesity among adults is continuing to go up, entailing troublesome increases in conditions such as heart problem and cancer by 2020 and 98% increase in type-2 diabetes by 2050.

Led by Klim McPherson, Oxford University professor, scientists carried out the research by making predictions up to 2020 for overweight and obesity levels among grownups by making use of latest data and comparing them to earlier estimations.

Their study shows a substantial increase in heart diseases, mainly coronary heart disease (CHD).

By the year 2050, they forecast a 23% increase rise in the occurrence of obesity-related stroke, a 34% increase in obesity-related high blood pressure, a 44% rise in obesity-related heart disease and 98% increase in type-2 diabetes.

Diabetes UK Care Adviser Cathy Moulton said, "This new report paints a gloomy picture of the future.... Type-2 diabetes accounts for 90 percent of all cases of diabetes and obesity is one of its leading causes."

"Historically a condition that only develops in the over forties, type-2 diabetes is now worryingly being diagnosed in children as young as seven, a situation almost unheard of just a generation ago, and purely as a result of obesity," Moulton said.

"There is every reason we can reverse these trends if the recommended daily level of 60 minutes' physical activity, achievable for most children, is combined with a healthy balanced diet, rich in fruit and vegetables and low in fat, sugar and salt."

"Unless we take action now, we will be putting a generation at risk of the many devastating complications associated with obesity," concluded Moulton, according to a release of Diabetes UK. (With Input from Agencies)