One Step Closer to an Utilitarian Healthcare System
Perhaps the greatest evidence for implementing your own healthy lifestyle are not that 2 billion people in the world are obese or overweight, or that 200 million Americans are either obese or overweight(CDC), or that the medical cost of obesity is nearing or is over 350 Billion dollars annually(Society of Actuaries). But, the latest study of obesity prevention out of England(The Telegraph) show that pregnant women are now being given an oral hypoglycemic agent to reduce the weight of their large unborn babies to prevent them from becoming overweight. The study's effort is to help reduce cesarian sections. The idea of this study has already sent shock waves throughout Britain as to the effectiveness and safety of this method. Actually,no studies show how safe this drug is in this young population. Metformin is one of the numerous older oral hypoglycemic agents originally used to prevent diabetes.No one knows what its effects will be on unborn children. But, clearly eager health o...