Obesity pushes US health spending higher than Europe
Categories: Diet & Weight Loss
In the health care debate, many point to the high cost of the universal care favored by many European countries. However, new research shows that, the United States actually spends more to treat its citizens, and obesity may be to blame.
The US has almost double the number of obese adults as the average European country. Subsequently, Americans have significantly higher instances of obesity-related diseases like cancer and diabetes. Because of this, the country spends an additional $100 billion to $150 billion on treatment.
There are also more current or former smokers in the US -- about half, compared with only 43 percent of Europeans. This, coupled with the obesity numbers, means the US population is generally sicker than their European counterparts.
These factors, combined with the higher prices the US pays for medical treatment, mean that 16 percent of the gross domestic product (about $2 trillion annually) is spent on treating the population -- more per capita than any country in Europe.
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Nicholas Dynes Gracey 10-07-2007 @ 1:14PM
Hi Jonathon Morgan & Anyone seeking a cure for 'diabetes mellitus' aka chronic HYPERglycemia [c/o chronic transient HYPERinsulinemia] …
Obesity is NOT a disease, UNdrugTREATED obesity should be a lifestyle choice...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CEe-UIvftUg
"...Americans have significantly higher instances of obesity-related diseases like cancer and diabetes..."
BECAUSE conventional drug administration imposed upon Those considered "obese" has side-effects including "...cancer and diabetes...".
…Warm thanks; Nick Gracey, BSc(Hons) Medical Biochemistry, Birmingham University, UK, WATerian c/o www.thatsfit.com @ 17:50hrs SUN.07.OCT.2007.
ps… Diabetes Is Caused By Food And Or Drug Administration Too Much And Or Too Often.
http://www.thediabetesblog.com/2007/04/19/no-food-no-problem
pps… Diabetes is NOT a disease … diabetes is the CURE [for relative-HYPOglycemia]…
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bpb/24/8/950/_pdf
'Relative-HYPOglycemia As A Cause Of Neuropsychiatric Illness' @ Journal Of The National Medical Association @ Harry M Salzer MD @ January 1966 @ Vol 58 @ Number 1 @ Table 1 @ Figure 2.
ppps… FOR MORE related info on chronic HYPERglycemia, chronic transient HYPERinsulinemia AND Insulin Resistance Induced by transient CARBOhydrate overload... please follow the links via…
www.tinyurl.com/2k4n3a
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