The survey, _title_d F as in Fat: How Obesity Problems Are Failing in America, was conducted by the nonprofit organizations Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It depicts a disconcerting increase in a condition that, when combined with attendant risks such as diabetes and heart disease, make up the most expensive burdens on the nation's health-care system. The researchers noted that overweight people tend to live as long as the thin, but with far more chronic diseases that are costly to treat. How are we going to compete with the rest of the world if our economy and workforce are weighed down by bad health, said Jeff Levi, executive director of Trust for America's Health.
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