The Real Price of the Obesity Epidemic
According to a new article published by researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found today on bioethics.net, most of all adults will be overweight or obese by the year 2030, to the tune of over $900B in healthcare costs.
If these projections are accurate, I think it's time to ask whether our $.99 Junior Bacon Cheeseburgers from Wendy's and high-fructose corn syrup injected foods (especially children's foods) should be made more expensive, less accessible, or less advertised (and therefore attractive to children and adults).
Food politics are, necessarily, going to become a key part of this issue, not to mention the moral responsibility of doctors to educate their patients about healthy diets, active lifestyles, and how to prevent adults and children from becoming part of this epidemic.
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