http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20121025/NEWS01/310250029/obesity-in-ny?odyssey=nav%7Chead

Comptroller says obesity costing NY $12B yearly

The New York comptroller says the state is spending about $12 billion a year to deal with obesity, which is reaching “epidemic proportions” in children, affecting nearly one-third of them.

Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s report says expenditures for New York’s 1.4 million overweight and obese children were $327 million in 2011, but the issue becomes more difficult as people age, as shown by an estimated $11.8 billion in state obesity health care costs that year.