Another reason health care costs more in the US and continues to rise is that our BMI is way above average and continues to rise. Compared with 22.5 BMI, lifetime healthcare costs for 27.5 BMI for these five diseases is raised by 20%, 32.5 BMI raises them by 50%, and 37.5 BMI raises them by nearly 100%. Drinking just three Mountain Dews a day in place of water adds 700 calories to a diet or 35% of the USRDA. If you drink the recommended 8 glasses of water a day and it offsets the same volume of Mountain Dew, its saves you 880 calories a day. Thats in addition to the dental destruction from the acid and sugar and the dehydration and vitamin flush from the caffeine.
I have to admit when Hillary first proposed a sugar a decade ago, I thought she was out of her mind, but now its making sense.
http://apps.who.int/infobase/compare...gegroup=30-100
http://www.obesityonline.org/slides/...re+costs&dpg=1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090708/...us_obesity_usa
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