Good Thursday morning...One week to Thanksgiving...is time flying or what???
A study released by the United Health Foundation predicts based on data analysis that the obesity rate in the U.S. will be 43% by 2018 and Americans will be spending 343 BILLION dollars on obesity related health issues by that year. The obesity rate has risen 129% in the past 20 years.
Whenever we see these type of numbers, we feel alarmed but I am not quite certain if we all understand just how devastating this trend will mean. concerning consequences to our society. If we think that there is a healthcare crisis now, wait until 1/3 of the population has diabetes with all of the comorbidities associated with this disease. Rationing of healthcare? Bet on it....there will be no way the generation under the babyboomers will be able to pay the taxes necessary to support Medicare and other government programs that will provide healthcare. Healthcare expenditures will rise exponentially and people will be going without medications and there will be many who will not be able to see a doctor. Throw on top of this the critical shortage of primary care physicians in America and this is all setting up a frightening situation.
The above sounds like the little kid screaming "The sky is falling" but the data is real and this is what the future holds if we cannot, as a society, put a brake on this situation.
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