Just to keep you in the know. This is the real epidemic, swine flu aside, how can we move forward without addressing our health, as a nation! Read this:
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- New research shows medical spending averages $1,400 more a year for an obese person than for someone who's normal weight.
Overall obesity-related health spending reaches $147 billion, double what it was nearly a decade ago, says the study published Monday by the journal Health Affairs.
The higher expense reflects the costs of treating diabetes, heart disease and other ailments far more common for the overweight, concluded the study by government scientists and the nonprofit research group RTI International.
RTI health economist Eric Finkelstein offers a blunt message for lawmakers trying to revamp the health-care system: "Unless you address obesity, you're never going to address rising health-care costs."
"Health care costs are dramatically higher for people who are obese and it doesn't have to be that way," said Jeff Levi of the nonprofit Trust for America's Health, who wasn't involved in the new research.
What are you doing to impact this epidemic?
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I am tired of paying for fat people because they brought this on themselves...I mean, if you are sick, get help! Why should healthy folk want to be around unhealth?
For all of you "saved" folk that are obese, you will not know heaven until you take care of your temples!!!
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