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Annual cost of obesity in US is $147bn

The health cost of obesity in the United States is as high as $147bn annually, based on a new study from RTI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, entitled “Annual Medical Spending Attributable to Obesity: Payer- and Service-Specific Estimates”.

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