{"id":22443,"date":"2010-10-19T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap-obesity_costs_u-s-_168_billion_study_finds\/"},"modified":"2010-10-19T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:24:03","slug":"ap-obesity_costs_u-s-_168_billion_study_finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22443","title":{"rendered":"AP&#8211;Obesity costs U.S. $168 billion, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 17% of U.S. medical costs can be blamed on obesity, according to new research that suggests the nation&#8217;s weight problem may be having close to twice the impact on medical spending as previously estimated.<br \/>\nOne expert acknowledged that past estimates likely underestimated the costs and said the new study \u201d\u201d which places obesity-related medical costs at around $168 billion \u201d\u201d probably is closer to the truth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think these are the most recent and perhaps statistically sound estimates that have come out to date,&#8221; said Kenneth Thorpe, a health policy researcher at Emory University who has focused on the cost of health care.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/yourlife\/fitness\/2010-10-18-obesity-costs_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 17% of U.S. medical costs can be blamed on obesity, according to new research that suggests the nation&#8217;s weight problem may be having close to twice the impact on medical spending as previously estimated. One expert acknowledged that past<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22443\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,582,589,100,149,104,597],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}