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The Work Place New Territory For Health & Wellness Reform The Cost of Obesity

Posted by newg6857 on Feb 14, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

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• IN 2010 ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF U.S. ADULTS (33.8%) WERE OBESE.
• APPROXIMATELY 17% (OR 12.5 MILLION) OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS AGED 2?19 YEARS WERE OBESE.
  

  OVER TWO-THIRDS OF U.S. ADULTS ARE EITHER OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE

• ALL ADULTS: 68 PERCENT
• WOMEN: 64.1 PERCENT
• MEN: 72.3 PERCENT.No it?s not Halloween, but it is SCARY HUH? SOUNDS LIKE A ?B? Movie HORROR FLICK! But unfortunately it?s not. It?s real and it?s our worst nightmare without Freddie Krueger in the lead role!
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  Don?t believe me? The Internet is easy to use. Put aside your update on American Idol or whatever reality buzz is happening and take a look for yourself. I?ll wait?????????Done?

  What you see is more like another remake of the ?The Living Dead?. Even scarier, most of us can unfortunately fit right into that role although it may be a short-term gig in more ways than one!

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BUT THE ECONOMY SUCKS RIGHT? TAKING CARE OF YOU COMES AT A PRICE!

BUT WHAT?S THE REVERSE PRICE TAG FOR NOT TAKING CARE OF YOU?

THE FIGURES ARE NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!

I like to keep things simple so let?s put it into perspective. Here goes?

Yeah, the economy does suck and we all wish we could go back to the 1990?s ?dart board pick em decade?. But we can?t, so we have to make due with what we have. Along the way we cut back on many an item to save up for what?s MOST IMPORTANT!?

Here are just a few cutbacks?

• We don?t need three thousand channels on our cable or satellite TV?s: so we pull a Bruce Springsteen and suffer through only ?57 CHANNELS WITH NOTHIN ON? for the time being.
• The Three-year old clunker may have to make it another twelve thousand miles: so we change the oil and do without?the voice activated navigation system with laser guided?parking control?for now!

• The new cell phone that knows all, tells all and may soon be able to baby-sit your two-year old son or daughter still has a few tweaks: so, we can put that on hold till we have the funds after we refinance our present mortgage.
• The new addition on your home to include the High Tech Man Cave with I Max compatible entertainment system and earth quake sound re-enactment, will take extra sound proofing to keep the neighbors happy: so we?ll ultimately have to wait on the?
• 1000 thousand inch flat screen TV with holographic interaction and teleportation capabilities.
  

  Priorities in Place?

  You bet!!!

  Your Health?

  Want to Bet???

  If you play the lottery instead, you may be better off. OK, OK, so what?s the flip side??

  WHAT?S THE COST OF OBESITY AND BEING OVERWEIGHT?

  

  IT AIN?T PRETTY

  Obesity is becoming the norm in our beloved country?an expensive and dangerous norm. As the prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased in the United States, so have related health care costs. The statistics presented below represent the economic cost of obesity in the United States as of 2010. Supersized isn?t an exaggeration on our bellies and in our wallets!!!

• As of 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that health-care costs in this country were around $147 billion to cover health complications from obesity ? more than 9 percent of the nation?s annual health-care budget.
• Obese Americans pay $1,429 a year more in medical costs than someone who has a body mass index (BMI) below 25; that?s 42 percent higher health-care costs for an individual.
• Employees, who are overweight, on average, make $1.25 an hour less than a low-BMI colleague, adding up to a six-figure loss over a career.
• Women get hit the hardest when it comes to paying a high price at work for being overweight ? obese women can make up to 24 percent less than an average-size women while even slightly overweight women make around 6 percent less.
  

  THE OBESITY PRICE TAG: $6,454?

  BUT WHAT?S THE REAL COST???

  ADD TOGETHER:

• The higher annual costs of health care and medication ($1,429)
• Wage discrimination ($2,500),
• Travel costs (a conservative $25),
• Other lifestyle costs such as mobility and clothing ($2,500),
• The cost of being overweight is around $6,454 a year, or$538 a month.
• Over a lifetime (40 adult years), that comes to $258,000. If?you put that $538 a month in your retirement account, earning a moderate average of 6 percent interest, you?d have $1,082,675. But that?s without diabetes or complications.
• With these add-ons you?re looking at $19,454 a year in total costs.

That?s $778,160 over a lifetime and over $3 million if that money had been invested

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And I?m sorry to say, but technology isn?t gonna get us out of this one. It may be a catalyst in the opposite direction. What do I mean?

A new study finds:

• 65 percent of Americans spend more time with their computer than their spouse; Ralph Cramden did better with Alice after their honeymoon!!
• On average, we waste 12 hours a month fixing computer problems. Wow, that?s stress free time!
• And overall, most people spend 1 hour per day on the computer, 2 ? 3 hours watching TV and 2 hours listening to the radio. This translates into one third of our waking hours.

  AND WE COMPLAIN THAT WE DON?T HAVE ENOUGH TIME FOR OURSELVES!

  Who takes responsibility? It ultimately ends up with us. But I wonder what our response would be to the person in the bread line?during the ?Great Depression? if asked the question of whether they?d rather eat or watch TV? Given out track record it may sound something like this:

  What?s the difference? I can do both at the same time!

  We will do a follow up on this post on ways to combat these overwhelming statistics and how corporate America and independent companies are the ideal battleground to take the lead in a new frontier. The monetary aspects and health benefits speak for themselves.

  

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References: Finkelstein, EA, Trogdon, JG, Cohen, JW, and Dietz, W. Annual medical spending attributable to obesity: Payer- and service-specific estimates. Health Affairs 2009; 28(5): w822-w831. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Surgeon General?s call to action to prevent and decrease overweight and obesity. [Rockville, MD]: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General; [2001]. Available from: US GPO, Washington.Wolf AM, Colditz GA. Current estimates of the economic cost of obesity in the United States. Obesity Research.1998;6(2):97?106.Wolf, A. What is the economic case for treating obesity? Obesity Research. 1998;6(suppl)2S?7S. ?The Real Cost of Living? by Carmen Wong Ulrich (Perigee Trade, 2010). National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity

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