**Obesity Related Disease Costs Overwhelm
HealthCare System
• Type II Diabetes ($63.14 Billion)
• Osteoporosis ($17.2 Billion)
• Hypertension ($3.23 Billion)
• Heart Disease ($6.99 Billion)
• Post-menopausal breast cancer ($2.32 Billion)
• Colon Cancer ($2.78 Billion)
• Endometrial Cancer ($790 Million)
Occurrances of Candida related illness and
death in mortality and morbidity reports relating to immuno-compromised
individuals and transplant patients is on the rise; fungal infestations
(Candida albicans- Candida spp.- Candida tropicalis) have become a major issue.
The research on obesity and its costs - physical,
medical, personal, and societal - brought me to the writing of
The Big, Bad, O: the Brutality of Obesity, in which I review
all of the options and aids available to the obese, including
getting rid of Candida yeast infestations, the statistics of
obesity, in pounds and people and dollars, and proposed scenarios
of the future of a very fat nation; I have concerns about what
it will cost us as a nation to retrofit for the millions and
millions of people who comprise the 25% obese who will not choose
to commit to losing it, and their growing numbers in the next
generation. I would much preferred to have never known this reality.