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Originally Posted by missdpuck
I've heard that the obesity rate of American teenagers is increasing but didn't really notice until recently. I ride past one high school on the way to work and deliver mail to another. I don't remeber seeing so many fat kids when I was that age, but who knows.
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Same here. Driving past my old school and looking at the kids outside, I don't ever recall that many obese kids when I went to school.
Obesity rates are increasing. At a deathly rate.
And as a result, health care costs are just going to keep shooting through the roof.
I've been to the doctor 3x in the past 2 years. Once to get a fractured sternum checked, and twice to get a blood test.
I'm not that big of a drain. But someone who is severely obese needs to go get blood tests, and get their blood pressure checked and a whole slew of other tests constantly.
He's a drain.
So, if people would quit eating so many carbs, there would be less people needing health care.