Obesity Costs to $190Bn/year In HealthCare, Surpasses Smoking

[singular_me]

Death by fat... when adding to that chemo inc, vaccines side effects, smoking, GMOs-pesticides-related-cancer, diabetes, etc, the business is simply booming!

But for how long? Last year a report said that life expectancy was down in the US, not by much, but at any moment we must be ready for the chart to take a big dive. Actually obesity and cancer costs are almost about the same.

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Mon Apr 30, 2012 | 10:46am EDT
As America's waistline expands, costs soar

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LOST PRODUCTIVITY

The percentage of Americans who are obese (with a BMI of 30 or higher) has tripled since 1960, to 34 percent, while the incidence of extreme or "morbid" obesity (BMI above 40) has risen sixfold, to 6 percent. The percentage of overweight Americans (BMI of 25 to 29.9) has held steady: It was 34 percent in 2008 and 32 percent in 1961. What seems to have happened is that for every healthy-weight person who "graduated" into overweight, an overweight person graduated into obesity.

Because obesity raises the risk of a host of medical conditions, from heart disease to chronic pain, the obese are absent from work more often than people of healthy weight. The most obese men take 5.9 more sick days a year; the most obese women, 9.4 days more. Obesity-related absenteeism costs employers as much as $6.4 billion a year, health economists led by Eric Finkelstein of Duke University calculated.


MORE DOCTORS, MORE PILLS

The medical costs of obesity have long been the focus of health economists. A just-published analysis finds that it raises those costs more than thought.

Obese men rack up an additional $1,152 a year in medical spending, especially for hospitalizations and prescription drugs, Cawley and Chad Meyerhoefer of Lehigh University reported in January in the Journal of Health Economics. Obese women account for an extra $3,613 a year. Using data from 9,852 men (average BMI: 28) and 13,837 women (average BMI: 27) ages 20 to 64, among whom 28 percent were obese, the researchers found even higher costs among the uninsured: annual medical spending for an obese person was $3,271 compared with $512 for the non-obese.

Nationally, that comes to $190 billion a year in additional medical spending as a result of obesity, calculated Cawley, or 20.6 percent of U.S. health care expenditures.

That is double recent estimates, reflecting more precise methodology. The new analysis corrected for people's tendency to low-ball their weight, for instance, and compared obesity with non-obesity (healthy weight and overweight) rather than just to healthy weight. Because the merely overweight do not incur many additional medical costs, grouping the overweight with the obese underestimates the costs of obesity.

One recent surprise is the discovery that the costs of obesity exceed those of smoking. In a paper published in March, scientists at the Mayo Clinic toted up the exact medical costs of 30,529 Mayo employees, adult dependents, and retirees over several years.

"Smoking added about 20 percent a year to medical costs," said Mayo's James Naessens. "Obesity was similar, but morbid obesity increased those costs by 50 percent a year. There really is an economic justification for employers to offer programs to help the very obese lose weight."


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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-obesity-idUSBRE83T0C820120430

[palani]

You have to be careful. When you put a cost to a medical condition then you have medical-care.

SEC. 1551. DEFINITIONS.
Unless specifically provided for otherwise, the defini-
tions contained in section 2791 of the Public Health Service
Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg–91) shall apply with respect to this title.



Medical care
The term “medical care” means amounts paid for—
(A) the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or amounts paid for the purpose of affecting any structure or function of the body,
(B) amounts paid for transportation primarily for and essential to medical care referred to in subparagraph (A), and
(C) amounts paid for insurance covering medical care referred to in subparagraphs (A) and (B).

So you see MEDICAL CARE is an accounting term that places a DOLLAR value on medical TREATMENT.

Now, if you were a rational being, you might ask yourself when the bill presents itself "Am I LICENSED to provide MEDICAL CARE?" You go around providing medical care to health care providers without permission from the state and you are likely to find yourself in a cell next to Maddoff. Perhaps a little ground work is necessary. Next time you get a bill from a healthcare provider asking you provide them with MEDICAL CARE why not ask them if you need to be licensed?

[I don't know why I bother as these concepts are way above the pay grade of the standard welfare state slave.]

[singular_me]

obesity is a genetic factor? really? Time for epigentics to take over... the absolute evidence that the environment (emotions) modifies the expression of genes

waistline issues in the so-called rich west getting worse by the day
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Europe's obesity crisis expands to 'enormous proportions'

May 6, 2015

Paris (AFP) - Europe faces an obesity crisis of "enormous proportions" as unhealthy diets and physical inactivity inflate waistlines and health costs, the World Health Organization claimed Wednesday.

Nearly all adults in Ireland -- one of Europe's fattest nations -- will be overweight by 2030, the European Congress on Obesity in Prague was told.

"Even in countries with a traditionally lower prevalence of obesity such as Sweden, obesity rates are predicted to rise sharply," said a statement issued by congress organisers.

"The data highlight a serious problem for many countries."

The ballooning burden of overweight and obesity, a preventable condition mainly caused by lifestyle factors, is a growing cause of disease and disability around the world.

According to WHO statistics, obesity has more than doubled since 1980, with up to 600 million adults affected in 2014.

More than 1.9 billion people, 39 percent of all adults in the world, were overweight.

Among children younger than five, 42 million were overweight or obese in 2013, according to the WHO, which has as a stated goal to halt the rise in obesity by 2025.

More of the world's population now lives in countries where weight and obesity kills more people than famine.

People are classified overweight if they have a BMI (body weight index, a ratio of weight to height) of 25 and higher, and obese from a BMI of 30.

The new research underlines that Europe "will face an obesity crisis of enormous proportions by 2030," said the research, which covered 53 countries in the WHO's Europe region.

On current trends, some 89 percent of Irish men are likely to be overweight by 2030, and 48 percent obese -- up from 74 percent overweight and 26 percent obese in 2010.

Of Irish women, 85 percent are likely to be overweight and 57 percent obese by 2030, up from 57 percent and 23 percent respectively.

Over a quarter of Swedish men and 22 percent of women will be obese by 2030, up from 14 and 12 percent in 2010.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/europe-faces-massive-obesity-problem-study-222035428.html?ref=gs

[singular_me]

MSG in food causes brain damage, obesity and other health risks

Monosodium glutamate, or MSG for short, is known for being a staple ingredient in prepackaged foodstuffs. Canned soups, for instance, are often loaded with MSG and other artificial ingredients. It’s common knowledge that some people are clearly negatively affected by it — migraines and dizziness are common after consumption, but it’s still widely consumed. After all, it is “Generally Regarded As Safe” or GRAS.

The GRAS label tends to give us a false sense of safety, when in reality, it just means that this food additive was in use when the Food Additives Amendment of 1958 was put into place. MSG, and many other additives, were “grandfathered in” and subsequently escaped having to undergo the FDA approval process. But, the term still invokes a feeling of security, and it makes food taste good — so what could go wrong, right?’
http://naturalnews.com/2017-01-23-msg-in-food-poses-serious-health-risks-brain-damage.html

ONE OF THE SOURCES
Actually, MSG Is Not Safe for Everyone (Op-Ed)
Credit: Game day snacks photo via Shutterstock

Kathleen Holton is a professor in the School of Education, Teaching and Health and the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at American University in Washington, D.C. Her research examines the negative effects of food additives on neurological symptoms, as well as the positive, protective effects of certain micronutrients on the brain. She is working on a book about how people can avoid consuming food additives and test themselves for sensitivity. She contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

A recent video from the American Chemical Society purporting to debunk myths about the food additive monosodium glutamate (MSG) led to a slew of news stories — but that coverage failed to recognize that a subset of the population should avoid MSG.

The video contains two misleading facts. The first suggests MSG is considered "Generally Recognized as Safe," or GRAS. The GRAS label for additives gives the appearance of safety; yet the term GRAS was simply given to food additives that were in use when the Food Additives Amendment of 1958 was established. The label effectively "grandfathered in" the additives so they could bypass premarket approval by the FDA (i.e., safety testing). Secondly, the video states that free glutamate occurs naturally in some foods. This is true; however, it does not mean that MSG is safe for everyone. People who are sensitive to MSG must also avoid foods with high amounts of naturally occurring free glutamate, such as soy sauce and Parmesan cheese.

How MSG works

MSG is a flavor enhancer that has been used in processed foods in the United States since after World War II. Though many associate MSG with Chinese food, people are more likely to encounter MSG in foods like soup, broth, chips, snacks, sauces, salad dressings and seasoning packets. The active part of MSG, which imparts its "umami" flavor, comes from the glutamate portion of the compound. Glutamate is an amino acid commonly found in the diet in bound form (connected to other amino acids to form a full protein, like meat) and free form (where glutamate is no longer bound to a protein). It is this free form of glutamate (like that found in MSG) which has the ability to act as a flavor enhancer in food by exciting the neurons in your tongue.

[Dachsie]

If amounts are paid for these things...

the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or amounts paid for the purpose of affecting any structure or function of the body,

then it is important to know if you actually received what you paid amounts for. If you did not receive what you, or your third party carrier, paid amounts for, then you ought to be able to receive a full refund of amounts paid for what was not received.

However, I bet it can always in every case be said that you received something from the recipient of the amounts paid that affected any structure or function of the body.

Health care and medical care are just another form of the criminal bankster racketeering.

[Dachsie]

I do not doubt that MSG causes major problems for many people, however, there are hundreds of food additives, dyes that also cause problems equally as bad as those caused by MSG. Doctors do not know what comes first, the chicken or the egg.

Leaky gut syndrome is what happens to many people who eat prepackaged processed foods for many years. It is not possible to say what in your food caused the original problem and doctors cannot and will not even say that your problems are real or are caused by a specific food additive. The symptoms are different for each person and you will get no help from any doctor for the problem, only thousands of dollars of medicals tests that all turn out negative and you have no problem.

It is ironic that the similar sounding substance, glutamine, is what helped the most in my leaky gut symptoms.

Off topic but does anybody have any solid facts about the rumor that MacDonalds foods contain human flesh?

[JohnQPublic]

8810

[monty]

Breaking , straight from Sorcha Faal - Trump orders FBI to raid CDC


http://youtu.be/-z4opGbBD4Y

https://youtu.be/-z4opGbBD4Y

[Neuro]

Breaking , straight from Sorcha Faal - Trump orders FBI to raid CDC


http://youtu.be/-z4opGbBD4Y

https://youtu.be/-z4opGbBD4Y
He doesn't discriminate much.

[singular_me]

a short synopsis



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMD3Kp-6rvQ

[Dachsie]

The medical establishment has never been able to supply any safe medicine to help people maintain good average weight. When people get old they tend to get fat. Some people remain skinny all their lives. Does not seem related to calorie intake.

When a person gets cancer, especially gut cancers like colon cancer, they live longer if they have much extra weight on them because after all the surgery and chemo and radiation they will lose weight rapidly.

The entire medical establishment is steeped in atheistic, marxist, eugenic, evolutionary philosophy. Sick people are objects to be dealt with as either guinea pigs and then destroyed after usefullness or let to die as quickly as possible if old and infirm.

These days the doctors are all too ready to say the person is "brain dead" so they can quickly remove life support and kill the person to harvest their organs. They consider "life support" to include food and water as in the Terry Shiavo case, a person that could hear and speak and respond, not "brain dead" by any means. It is all part of the philosophies mentioned above.

All of the latest research going on regarding the genome seems to be being used for engineering certain kind of people and weeding out other people - eugenics on steroids!

Feel the love!

[singular_me]

many are focused on the race/culture war but maybe is there a correlation between obesity and the take over of europe after all. If one neglects o one's own wellness 101 (self-responsibility failure and eating oneself to death) how can one address external issues?

DEPOPULATION AGENDA JUST DOING FINE

Obesity quadruples to nearly one billion in developing world
3 January 2014
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-25576400


WHO report: 74% of men and 64% of women in UK to be overweight by 2030
Wednesday 6 May 2015
Health experts warn of problem of ‘enormous proportions’ with rising obesity expected in many countries over the next 15 years
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/05/obesity-crisis-projections-uk-2030-men-women

[singular_me]

keep in mind that the western population obesity rate is predicted to affect 70% of people by 2030
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How not to inspire’: Provocative ‘fat-shaming’ commercial sparks outrage


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To9COZq3KSo


‘A German supermarket commericial has managed to divide a nation with supporters calling it an inspiring act of marketing genius, while opponents brand it an offensive fat-shaming ploy which could spark eating disorders in children.

The story of ‘Eatkarus’ is a controversial new advertisement by the supermarket Edeka. It encourages healthy eating by retelling the tale of Icarus (the mythical Greek boy who flew too close to the sun, plummeting to his death) through the eyes of an overweight boy.’

https://www.rt.com/viral/378318-germany-edeka-ad-eatkarus/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome