Did you know that the average American consumes 250 more calories a day than twenty years ago ?  This article from The New York Times educates us on the increased healthcare related costs incurred by obese Americans.

Obese Americans spend about $1,429 more on health care each year than the roughly $3,400 spent by normal-weight Americans. 

“Obesity, and with it diabetes, are the only major health problems that are getting worse in this country, and they’re getting worse rapidly,” Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the C.D.C., said.

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