Tuesday, September 18, 2012

From CNN: Health care costs to bulge along with U.S. waistlines

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/18/health/us-obesity/index.html

Health care costs to bulge along with U.S. waistlines

By Elizabeth Landau, CNN
updated 10:02 AM EDT, Tue September 18, 2012

"'(If) we stay on the current track, we're going to see unacceptably high rates of obesity, and more importantly, unacceptably high rates of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, obesity-related cancers, arthritis, that will really place a huge burden on our health care system,' said Jeff Levi, executive director of Trust for American Health."


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