By: Mackenzie, Haley, & Christina

Obesity’s Impact on Health

• Increases the risk of premature death, hearth attack, diabetes, gallbladder disease, hypertension, atherosclerosis osteoarthritis, and certain cancers.

• People who have fat in their upper body have are at a greater risk from more medical problems than those you have fat in their lower body.

• Scientists have linked being overweight to a higher risk of migraines.

Obesity’s impact on Healthcare

• Costs $60 to 80 billion a year in healthcare

• People spend around $30 to $50 billion on weight loss products.

What can/ should be done?

• We need a new approach on health and fitness, one that places less emphasis on body weight and more on a healthy metabolism

• More emphasis on exercise

Other Facts about Obesity

The cost of obesity effects you outside the doctor's office as well. The food and restaurant industries have made it significantly more expensive to eat a diet high in lean protein and fresh produce than one high in fat, starchy and processed foods (in other words, a typical American diet).

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• * Half of women now wear size 14 or larger. In 1985, the average size was 8.

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