Question

What are the long-term costs of obesity? And why should everyone be concerned?

Answer 1

The long term costs are bad health and people should be concerned because you could die from it.

Answer 2

The medical care costs of obesity in the United States are high. In 2008 dollars, these costs were estimated to be $147 billion. The annual nationwide productive costs of obesity obesity-related absenteeism range between $3.38 billion ($79 per obese individual) and $6.38 billion ($132 per individual with obesity)^16.

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