fatfacts剖析.ppt

Science and innovation Fat facts According to a congressional study, people in the United States spent $33 billion in 1990 trying to lose weight. Obesity causes or aggravates diseases such as gallstones, diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. Harvard University researchers estimated that medical treatment of obesity and the related diseases cost $45.8 billion the same year. Despite the expenditure of billions of dollars and the painfully sincere efforts of millions of people, more than half of all men and women in the United States remain clinically obese. Obesity is also a problem