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Nearly 10 percent of health spending for obesity

hypocritexposer

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WASHINGTON - Obesity's not just dangerous, it's expensive. New research shows medical spending averages $1,400 more a year for an obese person than 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.

Don't blame things like stomach-stapling for all those extra bills. They instead reflect 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.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32170526/ns/health-health_care/
 

backhoeboogie

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Obama has a plan for this. Did you not hear his teleprompter speech the other night? He's going to put a lot of nutritionalists on the U.S. payroll to let fat folks know what they are eating is not good for their situation.
 

hypocritexposer

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Are those nutritionalists not working at present?

Maybe it could be included in the education system, as it was years ago.

And no, I didn't watch the news conference. I was probably watching what everyone else was watching, reruns.
 

backhoeboogie

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hypocritexposer said:
Are those nutritionalists not working at present?

Maybe it could be included in the education system, as it was years ago.

And no, I didn't watch the news conference. I was probably watching what everyone else was watching, reruns.

You're missing the best comedy act there is! You just have to laugh and realize he has made a joke of the whole system. The sad part is Americans are really that stupid.

The best of all last week was the vocal Obama supporter. When asked what he thought of the Speaker of the House he asked, "What's his name again?"
 
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