It is, though pointing out that obesity is a high cost problem hardly suggests that it is we on Hacker News that need to make that money. If we help people los

It is, though pointing out that obesity is a high cost problem hardly suggests that it is we on Hacker News that need to make that money. If we help people lose weight in any way, we're going to save the country a lot of money in healthcare costs that could be spent elsewhere. Put another way, if the US finds a way to lose weight effectively, the results will have a strong positive impact on a variety of other services that the government provides that will be able to help more people with more available funding.