Alternet: "When in Doubt, Add Bacon and Cheese": How the Food Industry Hijacked Our Brains and Made Us Fat - by Anjali Kamat

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"When in Doubt, Add Bacon and Cheese": How the Food Industry Hijacked Our Brains and Made Us Fat - by Anjali Kamat

A new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that the direct medical costs of obesity total about $147 billion a year. That amounts to 9 percent of all U.S. medical costs. It's also over $50 billion more than the annual spending on cancer. US CDC Director Thomas Frieden noted that, "Obesity, and with it diabetes, are the only major health problems that are getting worse in this country." Speaking at the country's first obesity conference last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said: "If there was an epidemic of little kids getting cancer, it would be a national crisis. But because it's obesity and the damage doesn't come until later in life, we've been slow to act."

Note EU-Digest: this is not only a US problem,it has also become a problem in every industrialized country in the world and needs to be addressed.