The report says America’s rapidly expanding obesity problem is leading to a cost blowout and medical expenditures attributable to obesity have doubled in less than a decade — to as high as $147 billion per year.
From 1998 to 2006, obesity – defined as a body mass index greater than 30 – increased by 37 percent, states RTI. Obesity is responsible for 9.1 percent of annual medical expenditure, compared to 6.5 percent in 1998. (Staggering figures which do not seem to be declining, rather increasing).
An obese person has $1,429 per year more in medical costs, which is 42 percent more, than someone of normal weight. In addition to RTI, researchers at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the U.S. Centres for Disease Control & Prevention were involved the study.
This grim picture does not adequately show the pain and suffering involved when people suffer from obesity.
If you are literally “weighed under” and haven’t yet come to terms with the dire possibilities, please have a good think about the above statistics. You CAN have good health.
Weight-loss help is at hand if you just ask for it.
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