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Top 10 facts about Obesity
- Thirty per cent of children in the USA
are overweight.
- More than two thirds of obese children older
than 10 years old will become obese adults.
- Obesity is twice as common now as 20 years ago.
- Obesity in adults causes on average 5 to 20
years of life lost.
- Obesity is associated with a 36% increase in
inpatient and outpatient spending.
- Obesity is associated with 77% increase in
medication use compared to the expenses of non-obese individuals.
- Obesity is increasing in spite of the efforts of
AMA, AAP, AAFP, and other government agencies to educate the public.
- Obesity is the most visible but silent killer.
- Obesity is now implicated as a factor in
increased cancer.
- Physicians alone can’t stop the major
complications of obesity.
Home 10 Commandments to Reduce Obesity
Leo Leonidas, MD, FAAP,
Assistant Clinical Professor in Pediatrics, Tufts
University School
of Medicine, Boston; Attending Pediatrician,
Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor,
Maine.
Coming soon in a computer near you:
parentsmedschool.com
Watch for this First Medical
School for Parents in
late October 2003.
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