{"id":360,"date":"2011-01-20T22:15:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T22:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/think-grow.biz\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2011-01-20T22:15:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T22:15:31","slug":"the-real-cost-of-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/think-grow.biz\/blog\/the-real-cost-of-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Cost of Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>It is very interesting to see the actual total monetary costs of obesity to society.. Needless to say that &#8216;real&#8217; (i.e. social, emotional, etc..) costs are much more important. But the below information from Mckinsey helps give a closer look at the &#8216;economic&#8217; costs.. It might also be important to compare the &#8216;incremental profit&#8217; of the fast food industry and compare..<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">An obesity pandemic has put pressure on health care systems throughout the world. The United Kingdom, for instance, spent more than \u00a34 billion on obesity-related medical costs in 2007, and that could rise to \u00a39.7 billion by 2050. The United States currently spends about $160 billion\u2014twice what it did a decade ago\u2014and that amount could double again by 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Yet these huge numbers represent only a fraction of the pandemic\u2019s total economic burden on societies. Obesity indirectly costs the United States at least $450 billion annually\u2014almost three times the direct medical cost. The situation is comparable in other countries as well. To learn more, read \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckinseyquarterly.com\/links\/41943\">Why governments must lead the fight against obesity<\/a>\u201d (October 2010).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.mckinseyquarterly.com\/newsletters\/image\/CF_January_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is very interesting to see the actual total monetary costs of obesity to society.. Needless to say that &#8216;real&#8217; (i.e. social, emotional, etc..) costs are much more important. But the below information from Mckinsey helps give a closer look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/think-grow.biz\/blog\/the-real-cost-of-obesity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,25,9,21,13],"tags":[99,100,102,101,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/think-grow.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/think-grow.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/think-grow.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/think-grow.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/think-grow.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/think-grow.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/think-grow.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/think-grow.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/think-grow.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/think-grow.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}