Kathleen Sebelius - Obesity in the US

This week I just transferred to another branch of the company I work for. Now thanks to our big brother style of Government that intrudes on our lives more by the day , as far as I can tell the Government will ...

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - U.S. health officials have leveraged the star power of first lady Michelle Obama to roll out a new campaign against obesity, a preventable condition that drains billions of dollars from the economy.Obama, who plans to take on childhood ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government plans to increase funding to battle obesity and views healthcare reform as an opportunity to encourage better eating habits, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Tuesday.The Obama administration, as part of its economic ...

The US medical system spends around twice as much treating preventable health conditions caused by obesity than it does on cancer, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday. "We're spending just under 150 billion dollars a year on health conditions related to obesity," ...

Obesity in the United States now carries the hefty price tag of $147 billion per year in direct medical costs, just over 9 percent of all medical spending, experts reported at a national conference Tuesday in Washington, DC.. Beyond those costs are ...

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