Strategies to Prevent Obesity in the United States – From the CDC
(source: CDC)
The medical cost of obesity in the United States may be as high as $147 billion annually, based on a recent study
from CDC and the Research Triangle Institute. The proportion of all annual medical costs that are due to obesity increased from 6.5 percent in 1998 to 9.1 percent in 2006. To address this problem of obesity, CDC has recommended 24 community policy and environmental strategies to prevent obesity.
This is the CDC’s first comprehensive set of recommended strategies and measures to help communities tackle the problem of obesity through environmental change and policies that promote healthy eating and physical activity.
