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• Up to 71% of Americans are insulin resistant and about 35 percent of all Americans have metabolic syndrome or prediabetes.
• The estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the United States was $147 billion in 2008 US dollars; the medical cost for people who have obesity was $1,429 higher than those of normal weight.
• Children who are overweight or obese are five times more likely to have obesity or develop overweight as adults. See childhood obesity
• Obesity has nearly doubled in adults worldwide since 1990, and quadrupled in adolescents.
• People with obesity spend almost $1,500 more in medical costs than people with a healthy weight.
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