People who are obese spent 42 percent more for medical care in 2006 than did normal-weight people, found a study by RTI International and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. - FREE article!

And the problem is getting worse:  Two-thirds of adults are now either overweight or obese. Childhood obesity rates have nearly tripled since 1980, from 6.5 percent to 16.3 percent... [465 word article, March 2010]