Sep 17, 2010

The Economic Impact of Obesity in the United States

Brookings Institution... more than two-thirds of  Americans now overweight...Estimated medical costs of obesity are as high as $147 billion a year for 2008, or almost 10% of all medical spending. 


This is a substantial increase from their 1998 estimate of $78.5 billion a year. The authors attribute the majority of this increase to higher prevalence of overweight.

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