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If the US had the obesity rate it had in 2000 (not 2009), we might prevent 111,206 total knee replacements. If you have arthritis, you are twice as likely to be obese than if you don’t. About 50 million adults (22% of the US population) has arthritis—principally osteoarthritis, or [...]
Eating for health doesn’t have to be expensive. And it’s some of the best medicine: for weight loss, for pre-diabetes, for cancer prevention, for cholesterol control. Courtesy of MyMoneyBlog are easy ways to understand the cost of calories. In speaking with health professionals about [...]
Americans treated for diabetes doubled to about 19 million (8.5% of the population) in 2007 compared with 9.1 million (4.6% of the population) in 1996, according to the AHRQ, a federal agency. That doesn’t count the undiagnosed (7 million) and those with prediabetes (79 million). Health care [...]
Adult obesity has nearly doubled in the U.S. in 16 years. Obesity-related quality of life has been nearly cut in half (using QALYs, which Eddie Lawlor and I showed had ethical challenges and predicted the health care financing problems we’re having now). And following the money gives a direct [...]
