{"id":190465587,"date":"2011-01-14T11:06:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T11:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=190465587"},"modified":"2011-01-14T11:06:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T11:06:27","slug":"the-skinny-on-obesity-it-costs-us-270b-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=190465587","title":{"rendered":"The skinny on obesity: It costs US $270B a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By RITA DELFINER<br \/>\nOverweight and obesity are weighing on the US economy &#8212; costing a big, fat $270 billion every year.<br \/>\nSo says the Society of Actuaries in a study, released yesterday, analyzing the &quot;increased need for medical care and loss of economic productivity resulting from excess mortality and disability.&quot;<br \/>\n&quot;Just shows . . . obesity has a real impact on our economy,&quot; said co-author Don Behan, whose study crunched numbers from 500 research articles.<br \/>\nThe estimated tab:<br \/>\n* For medical care caused by overweight and obesity is $115 billion.<br \/>\n* For productivity lost to excess mortality is $45 billion.<br \/>\n* For productivity lost to disability for active workers is $40 billion.<br \/>\n* For productivity lost to overweight or obesity for totally disabled workers is $65 billion.<br \/>\nThe annual cost to Canada? A relatively reed-thin $30 billion, the study found.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/the_skinny_on_obesity_it_costs_us_Iy8RTgJpy7y525drnVDukI\">https:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/the_skinny_on_obesity_it_costs_us_Iy8RTgJpy7y525drnVDukI<\/a><br \/>\noldId.20110114110627681<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RITA DELFINER Overweight and obesity are weighing on the US economy &#8212; costing a big, fat $270 billion every year. So says the Society of Actuaries in a study, released yesterday, analyzing the &quot;increased need for medical care and loss of economic productivity resulting from excess mortality and disability.&quot; &quot;Just shows . . . &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=190465587\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The skinny on obesity: It costs US $270B a year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190465587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190465587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190465587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190465587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190465587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190465587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190465587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}