Financial health
Your physical health and weight directly impact your financial bottom line. In fact, direct medical expenses, food costs, transportation costs, wages, productivity, absenteeism and many more factors are negatively effected by increased weight. Want to shrink your waist and fatten your wallet? Just shrink your waist...
how your weight and health effects your financial health
A Heavy Burden: The Individual Costs of Being Overweight & Obese in the Us
"The overall, tangible, annual costs of being obese are $4,879 for an obese woman and $2,646 for an obese man. The overall annual costs of being overweight are $524 and $432 for women and men, respectively."
OBESITY PREVENTION SOURCE: tHE ECONOMIC COSTS OF OBESITY
"Thompson and colleagues concluded that, over the course of a lifetime, per-person costs for obesity were similar to those for smoking. In middle-age men, treatment of five common obesity-related conditions (stroke, coronary artery disease, diabetes, hypertension, and elevated cholesterol) resulted in roughly $9,000 to $17,000 higher costs compared to normal-weight adults."
FAST FACTS: tHE COST OF OBESITY
"Direct medical costs account for the majority of costs borne by overweight individuals and obese men, while obese women are disproportionately affected by job-related costs, such as lost wages."
THE HIGH AND RISING COSTS OF OBESITY IN THE US HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
"...We estimate that obesity raises the medical care costs of obese adults by an average of $3429 [annually]..."
america's obesity crisis
"...for individuals with a BMI of 40 or greater, a 5 percent weight reduction would reduce their annual medical costs by $2,137. With the same percentage reduction, individuals with a BMI of 35 would save $528 and individuals with a BMI of 30 would save $69 [annually]..."