Posted on October 6, 2011 by Jutia Group
America's growing obesity epidemic has been for years one of the primary concerns among health-care professionals and organizations. Right now, about one-third of adults and 20% of children in the country are obese, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So it's easy to imagine the costs associated with obesity can only be overwhelming. In 2008, for instance — which is the most recent data available — medical costs associated with obesity totaled $147 billion, making obesity a great burden on U.S. health care spending.
Obesity has been directly linked to other costly conditions such as heart disease, stroke, certain types of cancer and Type 2 diabetes, which is also a growing disease among . . . → Read More: 2 Stocks to Profit from Fighting America’s Growing Obesity Epidemic
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