Hugging and Chalking

This blog is about obesity and the inanity/insanity it spawns, the encroaching lawsuits and growing diet industry. Obesity is a matter of genes and personal responsibility. You can have an endocrine problem, or you can have a balance problem (too many calories and too little exercise). It’s not where you eat, but how much you eat; it’s not McDonald’s fault, or Mama’s fault, or Washington’s fault if your body is too fat or too thin. Rosabelle.

Thursday, November 25, 2004

The Economic consequences of weight loss for business

“A regional health plan calculated that it saved nearly $850 overall in per-person medical costs the year after an overweight member lost 5% or more body weight in a voluntary program.” Read the whole story about what happened at Kaiser Permanente Northwest Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon, and how they arrived at this figure.

posted by Rosabelle 11:23 AM  

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