CDC: 40 percent of cancers linked to obesity

[Bible_Belt]

*Just* the cancer cost of obesity in the US is approaching $50 Billion. That does not include the cost of treating heart disease and the myriad of other serious problems caused by being overweight. Even smaller surgeries like knee replacements are often required because of obesity. The total cost of fat people to this country is astonomical. $100 Billion? $200? Who the fvck knows? I don't think anybody does. But we can't talk about it because fat people are in the majority. No politician, most of whom are fat, is ever going to address the problem, because it would be political suicide.


http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/10/04/cdc-40-percent-cancers-linked-to-obesity-overweight.html

An unhealthy diet may affect more than just your waistband, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ‘Vital Signs’ report shows. In a press release on Tuesday, the CDC stated that 40 percent of all U.S. cancer diagnoses can now be linked to overweight and obesity.


The study presents daunting results, as nearly two-thirds of American adults are currently defined as overweight or obese.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3191884/
If cancer incidence, survival, and costs of care remained at constant levels, by the year 2020, the costs of cancer care in the US were projected to increase to $157.8 billion dollars from $124.5 billion dollars in 2010 (2). This 27% increase in projected costs reflects only US population changes.

 

[Dave Harmon]

wow, cancer care sure does cost a lot - and then that's a chunk off the defense budget.