http://www.obesityrates.net Information about obesity rates and defeating this worldwide epidemic Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:52:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.obesityrates.net/the-cost-of-obesity/ http://www.obesityrates.net/the-cost-of-obesity/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:52:46 +0000 Obesity Watch http://www.obesityrates.net/?p=38 Looking for some staggering statistics on obesity? Well a recent report from Santa Clara county in California shows that obesity costs the country about $2.1 billion (yes billion) per year. The statewide cost is around $41 billion. To be fair the study does not only include direct costs, but indirect costs as well, like that of inactivity. So an inactive obese persons limited economic output can have a real impact on the productivity of a region. Chenoweth and Associates performs the study for California and in their report noted that they expect the state cost to rise by about 25 percent by 2011.

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