Obesity costs soar tenfold to $36.5 billion in US - Yahoo! News

Obesity costs soar tenfold to $36.5 billion in US - Yahoo! News:

"Between 1987 and 2002, private spending on obesity-linked medical problems mushroomed from $3.6 billion, or 2 percent of all health spending, to $36.5 billion or 11.6 percent of spending, the study, published in the journal Health Affairs, found."