Hyperborea
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
It appears that the fast food outlets and the giant restaurant portions in the US may save Social Security though they may cause problems for Medicare.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/serv...16.wdeth0316/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/serv...16.wdeth0316/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/
Surging obesity rates in the United States over the next half-century could reduce life expectancy by as much as five years, new research shows.
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An accidental by-product, said epidemiologist and lead researcher Dr. Jay Olshansky, is that the American government-run pension plan may be saved from bankruptcy simply because people will be drawing less from it. At the same time, though, health-care costs are expected to explode.
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Dr. Olshansky, an epidemiologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said that current obesity levels in the United States reduce life expectancy by between four and nine months, a seemingly small total that still represents more than the effects of homicides, suicide and accidental deaths combined.