Here’s the relevant statistics. Each morbidly obese person has a direct medical care cost increase of $100,000 – $300,000 or more over their lifetime, even though their life is on average 10-15 years shorter. The added cost of care is due to providing what amounts to band-aid treatment of the cluster of obesity-related problems [...]
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9 May
Diet soda doesnt raise diabetes risk, after all
Time to pick your spot on this one. Is diet soda great, ok, horrible, carcinogenic? One of the popular threads of conversation is that perhaps it leads to Type II diabetes, but it probably does not. Definitely the sweeteners, in huge quantities, cause health problems. But hopefully you’re not consuming mass quantities. Another popular misconception [...]
