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https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050029 https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo... >Although effect

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050029 https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo... >Although effective obesity prevention leads to a decrease in costs of obesity-related diseases, this decrease is offset by cost increases due to diseases unrelated to obesity in life-years gained. Obesity prevention may be an important and cost-effective way of improving public health, but it is not a cure for increasing health expenditures.

2OEH8eoCRo0 5y ago
Cost increases to whom? Society or the individual? If a person is living longer and healthier then isn't their income and economic contribution higher as well? This does not even mention retirement. This seems like an extremely narrow stat to draw conclusions from.
- i_am_proteus 5y ago
  >Cost increases to whom? I provided a link to the article so that interested people could read it. It's all laid out quite nicely: health care costs.
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