Washington Examiner: Obesity epidemic at new high, costs $150B a year, hurts military recruiting
Americans continue to get fatter and it's delivering a huge blow to the country, both in higher health care costs and undercutting military recruiting, according to a huge new study.
The 14th annual State of Obesity: Better Policies for a Healthier America report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation bluntly reported that 70 percent of the nation is obese or overweight.
And while the rate of obesity growth is leveling off, the costs aren't. The report, for example, said additional health care for obese adults and children is $150 billion a year and billions of dollars more in lost worker productivity.
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WNU Editor: My brother use to be a lean-mean machine at 175 lbs (he is 6 ft. tall) .... who ran marathons!!!!! Now .... after living in the Bay Area for almost 20 years .... 230lbs, on medication for high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and something else that I forgot. WTF!!!!! I am 180lbs in good shape (I am on no medication). Our cousins in Russia .... ouch .... they are in super shape ... all of them lean and mean (and no medication). So the big question .... is there something in the air in the U.S.? Culture? Diet (obviously). Or something else?
