Fat America

According to a new study, the race toward obesity in America shows no sign of slowing down. Given our nation's universal-lite health care system, this news portends astronomically high costs for taxpayers in the not too distant future. Universal health care diminishes the incentive to live healthily. The prospect of costly medical procedures down the road, resulting from poor lifestyle choices, will prompt people to take better care of themselves now.

Obesity rates continued to climb in 31 states last year, and no state showed a decline.
"Unfortunately, we’re treating it like a mere inconvenience instead of the emergency that it is,” said Dr. James Marks, senior vice president at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a philanthropy devoted to improving health care.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found last year that more than 22 percent of Americans did not engage in any physical activity in the past month. The percentage is greater than 30 percent in four states: Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky and Tennessee.

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