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This week there has been several articles written about obesity and the medical costs associated with treating this major health problem.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Monday, July 27th, 2009 that new data is showing that costs have topped $147 billion in 2008 alone.

Costs have doubled in the past decade to treat obesity and per a Wall Street Journal article”…the prevalence of obesity rose 37% between 1998 and 2006, and medical costs climbed to about 9.1% of all U.S. medical costs, the researchers said”…and…”obese people spent 42% more than people of normal weight on medical costs in 2006, a difference of $1,429, the study found. Prescription drugs accounted for much of the increase.”

To help shed more light on this topic here are several current news articles that span a wide mixture of opinions on the obesity topic.

• Please Explain: Obesity
• Rising Childhood Obesity
• More on Obesity: Is the Government to Blame?
• The Thins Versus the Fats
• Do ‘Fat Taxes’ Work?

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

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Recent headlines —- “Our Health System is Broke”. So what’s new?

Our government says it will give this a high priority and fix the system. Biggest joke of the year.

Why? Because our government no more wants to fix the system then it wants to cut its salaries in half.

Just about every senator and congressman or woman is being paid off, big time, in one form or another, through political contributions, favors, bribes, etc., by pharmaceutical and medical related companies.

The same is true for the agricultural giants and food processing giants.

Check out the history of Medicare costs. Every time the government fixed the system, it cost you and me a bundle more money.

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