From the article: "The medical costs of treating obesity-related diseases may have soared as high as $147 billion in 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday...The cost of treating obesity doubled over a decade, signaling the rising prevalence of excess weight and the toll it is taking on the health-care system."
Further: "The numbers underscore the urgent need for deeper interventions [!!] in society and the environment that will make it easier for people to maintain normal weight, Thomas Frieden, the CDC's new director, told [obesity] conference attendees." [Emphasis added.]
This Frieden guy is a menace. He is one of the central figures behind the swine flu scare campaign, and now he is becoming a key person in the campaign against phantom obesity.
There is no doubt that weight-gain has occurred in the US as wealth has increased. Is it a problem that requires a high-level of government intervention in the personal lives of citizens? Not Really.
The rising cost of treating obesity can be traced to a re-definition of what illnesses are obesity-related which automatically made obesity a major cost item. The media too has been campaigning on the subject in its effort to convince the public that obesity is a major crisis. The trial lawyers have made their contribution by suing various alleged purveyors of obesity.
How one lives his or her life is their business. If such person wants to lose weight, plenty of programs and agencies exist that can provide help.
The CDC and others campaign on obesity for several reasons. 1) It is yet another attempt to train the public to do what they are told by the 'experts'. 2) It makes money for the media, doctors, lawyers and anyone else who can dream up an angle. 3) It is part of the cryptocracy's effort to make the health industry operate on a cost-cutting basis instead of a compassionate basis. The goal is to treat fewer people and thus save money, and they can do this by generating a government/media program to convince people to lose weight, and thus not show up at hospitals with an 'obesity-related disease'.
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