The Healthcare Gap Widens
This past week the CDC announced that 40 percent of Americans will be obese in the next few years and that ten percent will be servely obese. Other studies show that those remaining fifty percent will be some variation of overweight. This is incredible that a whole nation will be "technically" unhealthy. This will either be a medical insurance underwriters paradise or the biggest health tsunami that will crash the system beyond years of repair. This is because healthy behavioral lifestyle habits(patterns) are not mandated in our daily life. Not even physical fitness is mandated in the majority of grade schools today and look where it has lead us, so, how would this same response of non-mandated health effect a nation? This is just the beginning of a ground swell of an exponential number of health problems that will begin to ensue from obesity including : heart disease, heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure, diabetes, liver disease, respiratory disease(restrictive, obstr...