Too many fat people jumps health care costs….
Today's Post: Thursday, 7-2-2009
Yesterday most of the online health news services had a story about how much fatter the people in the United States are getting. AFP had: “US losing the battle of the bulge: report”
“WASHINGTON (AFP) The United States is losing its battle against bulging waistlines, with two-thirds of Americans now overweight or obese, according to an annual report released Wednesday.”
This was from the ‘sixth annual "F as in Fat" report by the Trust for America's Health & the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.”
The real problem revealed is that about 30 % of the people are just plain fat, the medical term is obesity; and close to another 20% are overweight enough to be pretty fat now even if they gain no more. Worse, the trends suggest many of the people in that 20% will get fatter as time passes.
The story adds:
"The country will never be able to contain rates of chronic diseases and health care costs until we find ways to keep Americans healthier," the report says, <<<<<
The report apparently suggests that if this was not the case and these people were not fat, health care costs would drop 25% right now.
The report also suggests that continuing these worsening current trends will cause an extra 956 billion dollars a year in health care costs by 2030 if the trends are not reversed.
If that happens, it will be like trying to drive the economy while towing an anchor.
Another story about this report shows that the health care costs estimates are likely quite accurate in terms of the extra costs.
AP had this yesterday:
"Health economists once made the harsh financial calculation that the obese would save money by dying sooner. But more recent research instead suggests that better treatments are keeping them alive nearly as long — but they're much sicker for longer, requiring such costly interventions as knee replacements and diabetes care and dialysis. Medicare spends anywhere from $1,400 to $6,000 more annually on health care for an obese senior than for the non-obese….”
(People who are fat also spend more treating GERD or acid reflux disease, asthma, heart disease, and high blood pressure. We already know that having people with these things lose enough fat, these problems get better or even disappear.)
The report also noted that this problem is about twice as bad now as it was as recently as 1980.
So, what’s the good news?
The good news is that we totally know what’s caused it.
I. If I use that knowledge to lose the rest of the fat I haven’t yet lost; & many of the health conscious people like you who read blogs like this one do the same; and when we do, we tell anyone who wants to know how we did it, that will help a lot.
It will directly save US healthcare costs on our bills.
(Tips on how to do this:
1. Eliminating the worst stuff right away helps.
Never consume trans fats or hydrogenated vegetable oils, because they directly cause heart disease.
Never consume high fructose corn syrup because not only is it as bad for you as sugar, it’s cheaper so you tend to buy more, and 30% of high fructose corn syrup contains mercury.
Stop drinking soft drinks. The regular kind have sugar or high fructose corn syrup and stuff you with calories while producing ZERO reduction in how hungry you are. Diet soft drinks have the same effect research shows by causing people who consume them to eat more sugars elsewhere – plus some of the artificial sweeteners cause health problems for some people.
2. Foods made with refined grains are nearly as bad as sugar itself. So not eating any refined grain foods by eating nongrain health OK foods or foods with whole grain only also helps.
3. Begin cutting how much and how often you eat sweet or treat foods in half. Then after you get used to that, do it again and then again if necessary. I’ve cut back to about 34 teaspoons or 11 Tablespoons of sugar a week. The average American now gets that much a DAY. And my fat tummy says I need to cut back to 12 teaspoons a week or less.
4. Watch less TV. See why below.)
II. We also need to tax the things that cause obesity AND stop them from being advertised, particularly on TV.
We are all descended from people who survived famines and who had virtually no access to certain foods before 10,000 years ago; hardly ever had access to such foods until 200 years ago; and had only about a quarter of the access we have now or less as little as 50 years ago.
These are foods that contain sugar, high fructose corn syrup, refined grains, artificial sweeteners, and hydrogenated vegetable oils and include all soft drinks. And they include grain fed animals and farmed fish to a large degree.
Most of these foods directly cause insulin surges that then cause fat gain and often lead to type 2 diabetes. Most provide a lot of calories without much nutrition or reduction in your appetite.
Hydrogenated vegetable oils directly cause heart disease.
And, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, refined grains, artificial sweeteners, and all soft drinks tend to lower HDL while increasing triglycerides and inflammation which has much the same effect on increasing heart disease.
Since having people consume these things costs the economy dearly from these health effects and people enjoy many of these foods and few know how harmful they are, it will help people eat less of them to let them know the effects and tax these foods. And, not only will the taxes cut how much of these fattening and health harmful things people ingest, it will help raise the money to pay for their effects and educate people about them.
Lastly, for both individuals making an effort to not be fat and for everyone else, completely banning these foods from being advertised online or on TV will cut their consumption about in half at a single stroke.
It seems that not only do people who watch a lot of TV where these things are advertised heavily now get fat from the fact that they burn less calories watching TV than they do while sleeping, they also reliably respond to the ads & buy and consume twice as much of these things as people who don’t watch that much TV or watch shows without those ads.
Today's Post: Thursday, 7-2-2009
Yesterday most of the online health news services had a story about how much fatter the people in the United States are getting. AFP had: “US losing the battle of the bulge: report”
“WASHINGTON (AFP) The United States is losing its battle against bulging waistlines, with two-thirds of Americans now overweight or obese, according to an annual report released Wednesday.”
This was from the ‘sixth annual "F as in Fat" report by the Trust for America's Health & the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.”
The real problem revealed is that about 30 % of the people are just plain fat, the medical term is obesity; and close to another 20% are overweight enough to be pretty fat now even if they gain no more. Worse, the trends suggest many of the people in that 20% will get fatter as time passes.
The story adds:
"The country will never be able to contain rates of chronic diseases and health care costs until we find ways to keep Americans healthier," the report says, <<<<<
The report apparently suggests that if this was not the case and these people were not fat, health care costs would drop 25% right now.
The report also suggests that continuing these worsening current trends will cause an extra 956 billion dollars a year in health care costs by 2030 if the trends are not reversed.
If that happens, it will be like trying to drive the economy while towing an anchor.
Another story about this report shows that the health care costs estimates are likely quite accurate in terms of the extra costs.
AP had this yesterday:
"Health economists once made the harsh financial calculation that the obese would save money by dying sooner. But more recent research instead suggests that better treatments are keeping them alive nearly as long — but they're much sicker for longer, requiring such costly interventions as knee replacements and diabetes care and dialysis. Medicare spends anywhere from $1,400 to $6,000 more annually on health care for an obese senior than for the non-obese….”
(People who are fat also spend more treating GERD or acid reflux disease, asthma, heart disease, and high blood pressure. We already know that having people with these things lose enough fat, these problems get better or even disappear.)
The report also noted that this problem is about twice as bad now as it was as recently as 1980.
So, what’s the good news?
The good news is that we totally know what’s caused it.
I. If I use that knowledge to lose the rest of the fat I haven’t yet lost; & many of the health conscious people like you who read blogs like this one do the same; and when we do, we tell anyone who wants to know how we did it, that will help a lot.
It will directly save US healthcare costs on our bills.
(Tips on how to do this:
1. Eliminating the worst stuff right away helps.
Never consume trans fats or hydrogenated vegetable oils, because they directly cause heart disease.
Never consume high fructose corn syrup because not only is it as bad for you as sugar, it’s cheaper so you tend to buy more, and 30% of high fructose corn syrup contains mercury.
Stop drinking soft drinks. The regular kind have sugar or high fructose corn syrup and stuff you with calories while producing ZERO reduction in how hungry you are. Diet soft drinks have the same effect research shows by causing people who consume them to eat more sugars elsewhere – plus some of the artificial sweeteners cause health problems for some people.
2. Foods made with refined grains are nearly as bad as sugar itself. So not eating any refined grain foods by eating nongrain health OK foods or foods with whole grain only also helps.
3. Begin cutting how much and how often you eat sweet or treat foods in half. Then after you get used to that, do it again and then again if necessary. I’ve cut back to about 34 teaspoons or 11 Tablespoons of sugar a week. The average American now gets that much a DAY. And my fat tummy says I need to cut back to 12 teaspoons a week or less.
4. Watch less TV. See why below.)
II. We also need to tax the things that cause obesity AND stop them from being advertised, particularly on TV.
We are all descended from people who survived famines and who had virtually no access to certain foods before 10,000 years ago; hardly ever had access to such foods until 200 years ago; and had only about a quarter of the access we have now or less as little as 50 years ago.
These are foods that contain sugar, high fructose corn syrup, refined grains, artificial sweeteners, and hydrogenated vegetable oils and include all soft drinks. And they include grain fed animals and farmed fish to a large degree.
Most of these foods directly cause insulin surges that then cause fat gain and often lead to type 2 diabetes. Most provide a lot of calories without much nutrition or reduction in your appetite.
Hydrogenated vegetable oils directly cause heart disease.
And, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, refined grains, artificial sweeteners, and all soft drinks tend to lower HDL while increasing triglycerides and inflammation which has much the same effect on increasing heart disease.
Since having people consume these things costs the economy dearly from these health effects and people enjoy many of these foods and few know how harmful they are, it will help people eat less of them to let them know the effects and tax these foods. And, not only will the taxes cut how much of these fattening and health harmful things people ingest, it will help raise the money to pay for their effects and educate people about them.
Lastly, for both individuals making an effort to not be fat and for everyone else, completely banning these foods from being advertised online or on TV will cut their consumption about in half at a single stroke.
It seems that not only do people who watch a lot of TV where these things are advertised heavily now get fat from the fact that they burn less calories watching TV than they do while sleeping, they also reliably respond to the ads & buy and consume twice as much of these things as people who don’t watch that much TV or watch shows without those ads.
Labels: effective fat loss, effective weight loss methods, health care solutions, how to cut health care costs, how to prevent obesity
posted by David at 1:14 PM
1 Comments:
Quite an agreeable post. Eating habits can matter to the health, especially to the heart. Isn’t it natural for us to believe we are healthy and not suffering from any disease? I had a similar thought process until my physician asked me to get a heart scan done after he found that my basic cardiograms were not perfect. I discovered that there were calcium deposits in my coronary arteries and I was at a serious risk of a heart attack. I was shocked and went ahead with the Cardiologist's suggestion of an advanced diagnostic scan. Though it’s always tough to undergo such experiences, I was not at any kind of discomfort at the Elite Health(www.elitehealth.com) advanced heart scan facility. I am not an expert in medical appliance and machines but could feel that the equipment was world-class and I was in safe hands. That feeling is really very important for me and that’s how it actually went on. The facilities for Full Body Scan were as good as they can get.
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