Fat People Cheaper to Treat, Study Says

[uscitizen]

Fat People Cheaper to Treat, Study Says


Feb 5, 2:58 AM (ET)

By MARIA CHENG

LONDON (AP) - Preventing obesity and smoking can save lives, but it doesn't save money, researchers reported Monday. It costs more to care for healthy people who live years longer, according to a Dutch study that counters the common perception that preventing obesity would save governments millions of dollars.

"It was a small surprise," said Pieter van Baal, an economist at the Netherlands' National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, who led the study. "But it also makes sense. If you live longer, then you cost the health system more."

In a paper published online Monday in the Public Library of Science Medicine journal, Dutch researchers found that the health costs of thin and healthy people in adulthood are more expensive than those of either fat people or smokers.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080205/D8UK1FA80.html

 

[Damocles]

So do your duty and off yourself. You aren't fat enough yet.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

I would like to see what the breakdown is on a per anum basis. The total costs might be higher, but it would be stretched over a longer period of time. Which means a longer period of taxes being paid by the individual.

 

[uscitizen]

I just thought it was an interesting and vastly contrasting with accepted views study.


Guess I will go eat a gew more pieces of sis's homade fudge with black walnuts.

 

[Topspin]

Motorcyclist are cheaper too insure too. That was a simpleton thing to post.

 

[Timshel]

See, so everybody just layoff Watermark.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

See, so everybody just layoff Watermark.

Frustrating.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I would like to see what the breakdown is on a per anum basis. The total costs might be higher, but it would be stretched over a longer period of time. Which means a longer period of taxes being paid by the individual.

The study obviously wasn't recommending that everyone get fat. Clearly there's a net negative.

 

[uscitizen]

I just thought of something if Huckelberry becomes president the no serving fat proposal in Ms might go nationwide. Bumbleberry is a health nut, or claims to be.