{"id":1289,"date":"2009-01-07T10:23:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T10:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:42:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:42:34","slug":"19-39-extra-in-health-care-costs-per-overweight-pound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1289","title":{"rendered":"$19.39 extra in health care costs per overweight pound"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overweight people are more prone to heart disease, stroke, diabetes – even some kinds of cancers. According to the company Humana every overweight individual in the US costs $1,037.64 extra in health care costs. In total that is $127 billion added to the national health care bill.<\/p>\n

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Overweight people are more prone to heart disease, stroke, diabetes – even some kinds of cancers. According to the company Humana every overweight individual in the US costs $1,037.64 extra in health care costs. In total that is $127 billion added to the national health care bill. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/4823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}