{"id":3386,"date":"2009-07-30T15:16:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T13:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:38:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:38:20","slug":"obesity-costs-u-s-health-system-147-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3386","title":{"rendered":"Obesity costs U.S. health system $147 billions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity-related diseases account for nearly 10 percent of all medical spending in the United States or an estimated $147 billion a year, U.S. researchers said Monday.<span id=\"midArticle_1\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>They said obese people spend 40 percent more &#8212; or $1,429 more per year &#8212; in healthcare costs than people of normal weight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is critical that we take effective steps to contain and reduce the enormous burden of obesity on our nation,&#8221; Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.healthaffairs.org\/cgi\/reprint\/hlthaff.28.5.w822v2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity-related diseases account for nearly 10 percent of all medical spending in the United States or an estimated $147 billion a year, U.S. researchers said Monday. They said obese people spend 40 percent more &#8212; or $1,429 more per year &#8212; in healthcare costs than people of normal weight. &#8220;It is critical that we take [&hellip;]<\/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\/3386"}],"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=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}