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Monday, January 18, 2010

A few statistics on obesity and disease:

80% of type II diabetes is related to obesity.
70% of Cardiovascular disease is related to obesity.
42% of breast and colon cancer is diagnosed among obese individuals.
30% of gall bladder surgery is related to obesity.
26% of obese people have high blood pressure.

3 comments:

Elise said...

WOW! Those are high numbers!

Pitbull said...

It's so much more than just "losing weight"! This journey is about "getting healthy"! And those stats are just a few reminders of why it's so important!!! Thanks for sharing Kari!

Anonymous said...

Those are some pretty blunt numbers...but very important to our health! Thank you!!