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Obesity Could Cost Texas $15.6 Billion Next Year
The Houston Chronicle Link to more items from this source
Aug. 19, 2009

Excerpt: Obesity is the elephant in the room of health care reform, a public health catastrophe that kills well over 100,000 Americans a year, may cost Texas $15.6 billion next year in health care costs and lost productivity, and promises to shorten U.S. life expectancy for the first time since the Civil War. Whatever Washington does this year to try to lower medical spending almost certainly will be swamped by the nation's rising weight. Obesity lurks behind the top chronic illnesses -- heart disease, diabetes, stroke and colon, breast and prostate cancers, among many others -- whose treatments routinely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. In two decades the obesity rate in Texas has more than doubled -- 29 percent of Texans in 2007 were obese.

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