Don’t believe our expanding waistlines and contracting wellness threaten the country? A quick look at the statistics on obesity in the U.S. tell a stark and frightening tale.Americans gain more and more weight every year. On average, experts estimate we each gain about a pound a year, every year.
- By 2030, at our current rate of weight gain, we’ll be spending up to $66 billion annually in medical costs to deal with the health consequences of obesity.
- Because of our growing body fat, we use about a billion more gallons of gasoline a year than we would if we weighed, on average, what Americans weighed back in the 1960s.
- Increased disability among obese workers costs about $70 billion a year.
- Shortened life expectancy of obese people is estimated to cost about $50 billion annually.
- Lessened productivity because of obesity is about $40 billion.
- From 1998 to 2008, about 140,000 people who showed up at military recruitment centers were too overweight to serve.
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