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Carol McCall — a research actuary at Humana — culled through national health care data and the data from Humana’s members, and here is what she found. On average, the annual per-pound cost of being overweight — that is, the added cost per added pound of the overweight and the obese — is $19.39. The cost increases with age.
- For 25-year-olds, it averages $10.25 for every overweight pound.
- By age 64, it increases to $26.32. (On average, overweight people are 29 pounds overweight; the obese are 82 pounds overweight.)
- For someone age 25, the added annual health care cost is $209 for the overweight and $960 for the obese.
- By age 64, this grows to $610 extra for the overweight and $2,300 for the obese.
Specifically Humana estimates these costs at the following for 2009: · $19.39 in added health care costs for every overweight pound; · $1,037.64 for every overweight individual; · $127 billion added to the national health care bill.
Those costs add up to a $127 billion crisis. The increase in obesity prevalence – going from 23 percent to 33 percent between 1994 and 2004 – added $34 billion to the annual health care bill.
There is a way to get out of this national problem The good news is that Humana’s data also indicates that just a small change – a reduction of 276 calories a day for the overweight – makes a big difference. Cutting that little from each day’s intake would start moving millions of Americans from the category of overweight to healthy. By adding a 10-15 minute FootGaming break throughout the day it's easy to use 276 calories having fun and re-energizing. It's also tough to snack or drink a soda while FootGaming. For most people this means that mindless calorie intake is easily reduced as well. Start FootGaming today!
