The increasing number of obese people in the U.S. has led to health concerns and rising costs, Bloomberg reports.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found 35.7 percent of adults in the U.S. were obese from 2009 to 2012, up from 31.1 percent a decade ago and 13.3 percent from 1960 to 1962. Further, an economics professor told Bloomberg that obesity raised medical care costs by $315.8 billion in 2010.
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.