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Good news? In the Journal of Preventive Medicine last week, health-policy experts estimated that 42 per cent of American adults will be obese in 2030. That?s a 9-point drop from an earlier projection.
Forgive us if we don?t cheer at the prospect of adding 32 million to the total number of Americans who are dozens of pounds too heavy, a count that stood in 2010 at 78 million. Forty-two per cent ? or even 36 per cent, the 2010 rate ? is a public-health emergency that hurts not only the morbidly overweight ? who face higher rates of diabetes, heart disease and other deadly illnesses ? but everyone else who has to help pay for treating the consequences of obesity, a preventable condition.
Reuters reports that the U.S. already devotes a fifth of its health-care spending, $190 billion (all figures US) a year, to obesity-related costs. If America could just maintain its current obesity rate, it would save $550 billion over the next two decades, the researchers noted.
http://www.thespec.com/opinion/editorial/article/722752--obesity-is-the-new-tobacco
Wonder if the US are ready to sign up to Jamie Oliver's campaign for healthier school meals yet? There was unbelievable opposition to him when he went over there
Forgive us if we don?t cheer at the prospect of adding 32 million to the total number of Americans who are dozens of pounds too heavy, a count that stood in 2010 at 78 million. Forty-two per cent ? or even 36 per cent, the 2010 rate ? is a public-health emergency that hurts not only the morbidly overweight ? who face higher rates of diabetes, heart disease and other deadly illnesses ? but everyone else who has to help pay for treating the consequences of obesity, a preventable condition.
Reuters reports that the U.S. already devotes a fifth of its health-care spending, $190 billion (all figures US) a year, to obesity-related costs. If America could just maintain its current obesity rate, it would save $550 billion over the next two decades, the researchers noted.
http://www.thespec.com/opinion/editorial/article/722752--obesity-is-the-new-tobacco
Wonder if the US are ready to sign up to Jamie Oliver's campaign for healthier school meals yet? There was unbelievable opposition to him when he went over there