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Expanding Waistlines May Boost U.S. Health Cost $66 Billion a Year by 2030

A barber helps a customer through the door of his shop. Photographer: Cindy Yamanaka/Orange County Register/Newscom

U.S. health-care spending will rise by as much as $66 billion a year by 2030 because of increased obesity if historic trends continue, researchers said.

Almost 100 million Americans and 15 million Britons are already considered obese, based on body-mass index, a ratio of weight to height, Y. Claire Wang, an epidemiologist at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York, said yesterday at a London news conference.

Another 65 million American adults and another 11 million British adults would join them in the next two decades based on past trends, said Wang, one of the authors of a four-part series on obesity published in today’s Lancet. The increased cost represents about 2.6 percent of the U.S.’s annual health-care bill. In the U.K., costs would rise as much as 2 billion pounds ($3.3 billion) a year, or 2 percent of yearly health spending.

“We are in an obesity and chronic disease crisis although it doesn’t feel like it,” Boyd Swinburn, a professor at Deakin University in Melbourne and another of the authors, said at the press conference. “It’s a little bit like the frog sitting in hot water — it doesn’t realize that it’s going to boil until it’s too late.”

Obesity rates have increased globally since the 1970s as changes in the food supply affect what people eat, Swinburn said. The condition has been driven primarily by the “passive overconsumption” of more processed, affordable, available and promoted food, he said.

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The United Nations will hold its first high-level meeting on noncommunicable diseases in New York Sept. 19-20 and government leaders there need to address the worldwide obesity epidemic, the researchers said.

“Governments certainly need to lead obesity prevention but so far few have shown any leadership,” said Steven Gortmaker, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and one of the authors of the Lancet report. “If we have no measures and don’t set any targets we’re not going to make a lot of progress.”

Taxes on unhealthy foods and beverages, “traffic-light” style labels and reduced advertising of junk food and beverages to children are among the measures that governments should consider to improve health and save on costs, Gortmaker said. He said food manufacturers had resisted efforts that could help address the obesity crisis and compared them to tobacco companies fighting anti-smoking campaigns.

The authors said while national plans to combat obesity have yielded few results, two “positive signs for the future” are the U.K.’s cross-government strategy of marketing restrictions and improving school food and, in the U.S., first lady Michelle Obama’s campaign to reduce childhood obesity. She has pushed to make food labeling easier to understand, encouraged schools to increase exercise levels and reached agreements with companies such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation’s largest retailer, to sell healthier food.Similar Posts:

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Want to Keep Pounds Off? The Trick is Consistent Exercise
By Alice Park
UPDATED: 12/15/2010
Now that the holidays are here, New Year’s resolutions to lose weight won’t be far behind. So just in time, researchers report that keeping up a regular exercise regimen may be your best bet when it comes to keeping extra pounds at bay.

It’s not exactly ground-breaking advice, and perhaps not what most of us want to hear, but the new study led by Dr. Arlene Hankinson at Northwestern University confirms that consistent physical activity helps to prevent weight gain.

In her analysis, Hankinson measured body mass index and waist circumference among more than 3,400 men and women enrolled in a heart study. The trial was ideal for investigating the effects of exercise on weight since the subjects were followed over 20 years, from 1985-86 through 2005-06. Overall, men who were the most active gained 2.6 kg fewer per year than those who were least active, while the women with the highest level of physical activity enjoyed even greater benefit — they gained 6.1 kg less per year than women in the lowest activity group. ( More on Time.com: Fitness Tech: 10 Cool Ways to Get in Shape)

“It didn’t matter if you were normal weight, overweight or obese in this study,” says Hankinson of the results. “You don’t have to have a BMI of less than 25 to get benefits from physical activity. So it’s never too late.”

Dr. Tim Church, director of preventive medicine at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, says “to me, it’s crystal clear that weight is about diet and about physical exercise. The relative percentage of each is something we will debate until the end of time, but it’s naïve to throw either physical activity or diet out the window, and this study is strong evidence for keeping physical activity in the discussion.”

Despite the intuitive connection between physical activity and weight loss, in recent years, there have been conflicting reports about whether exercise can actually help people shed pounds. Much of that confusion, says Hankinson, may derive from the fact that losing weight once you are overweight or obese is one thing, while preventing weight gain regardless of your size is another. She also notes that short-term studies of the effect of exercise on weight may be misleading, since it’s difficult for people to maintain a regular, intensive program of physical activity. “I think the studies looking at activity for weight loss are consistent, and show that physical activity is effective,” she says. “The problem is that most people either can’t maintain that level of activity for long periods of time compared to changes in their diet, and so we see that physical activity is less effective in having an immediate impact on weight.”

In her analysis, Hankinson stratified the subjects into low, moderate and high activity levels, based on the frequency and consistency with which the volunteers exercised. Not surprisingly, after 20 years, those who were able to maintain the highest level of activity showed the least weight gain. She notes that exercise does not prevent weight gain completely. “Weight gain overall is inevitable with age, and highly active people still did gain weight,” she says. But they gain less weight than those who are only moderately or inconsistently active. ( More on Time.com: Want to Eat Less? Imagine Eating More)

Hankinson says her findings should establish that regular and consistent exercise at a moderate intensity is effective in preventing weight gain, particularly over time, but that some people may find the results discouraging. In the study, those who exercised at a moderate level gained as much weight as those who were only minimally active. But that doesn’t mean that only marathoners can stave off middle-age creep, says Church. He notes that the heart trial from which the data were gleaned involved a relatively intense physical activity program, so that when the volunteers were divided by whether or not they met the federal recommendation of at least 150 minutes of exercise a week, those who did gained less weight than those who did not. “There were clear differences in the amount of weight that wasn’t gained in those who met the recommendations,” he says.

Hankinson agrees. “The federal guidelines of 150 minutes of moderate activity a week is what everyone should go for at a minimum,” she says. “It’s about doing what works for you and, most importantly, keeping it up.”Similar Posts:

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Why going green won’t make you better or save you money

By Michael S. Rosenwald
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 18, 2010; G01

Like most Whole Foods shoppers, David Bain thinks he is a decent citizen of Earth. His family buys mostly organic food. They recycle. He recently fortified his green credentials by removing a leaking oil tank in his yard.

But here’s a head scratcher: Though the Bains live in Arlington within walking distance of Whole Foods, they often drive there in an SUV that gets just 19 miles per gallon. He has noticed that his SUV is not alone in the lot.

Does that make Bain a hypocrite? He paused before responding: “I could see how people would come to that conclusion, but I don’t have the illusion that people’s decision-making is always logical.”

We drink Diet Coke — with Quarter Pounders and fries at McDonald’s. We go to the gym — and ride the elevator to the second floor. We install tankless water heaters — then take longer showers. We drive SUVs to see Al Gore’s speeches on global warming.

These behavioral riddles beg explanation, and social psychologists are offering one in new studies. The academic name for such quizzical behavior is moral licensing. It seems that we have a good/bad balance sheet in our heads that we’re probably not even aware of. For many people, doing good makes it easier — and often more likely — to do bad. It works in reverse, too: Do bad, then do good.

“We have these internal negotiations going in our heads all day, even if we don’t know it,” said Benoît Monin, a social psychologist who studies moral licensing at Stanford University. “People’s past behavior literally gives them license to do that next thing, which might not be good.”

The implications of moral licensing are vast, stretching beyond consumer decisions and into politics and environmental policy. Monin published a study showing that voters given an opportunity to endorse Barack Obama for president were more likely to later favor white people for job openings. Social psychologists point to government standards for fuel efficiency as another example of moral licensing at work: Automakers can sell a certain number of gas guzzlers as long as their overall fleet achieves a specified miles-per-gallon rating.

“There are so many contradictions in today’s world, especially when it comes to green issues,” said Keith Ware, who has watched with raised eyebrows as Hummers pull up to his environmentally sensitive appliance store, Eco-Green Living, near the nuclear-free zone of Takoma Park.

From a theoretical perspective, the research has shown that “it’s like we can withdraw from our moral bank accounts,” Monin said. “It’s a lens through which you see the rest of your behavior. But it may not even be conscious.”

This seemingly contradictory behavior is all around us, but it is probably most apparent, and easy to lampoon, in the greening of America.

University of Toronto behavioral marketing professor Nina Mazar showed in a recent study that people who bought green products were more likely to cheat and steal than those who bought conventional products. One of Mazar’s experiments invited participants to shop either at online stores that carry mainly green products or mainly conventional products. Then they played a game that allowed them to cheat to make more money. The shoppers from the green store were more dishonest than those at the conventional store, which brought them higher earnings in the game.

“People do not make decisions in a vacuum; their decisions are embedded in a history of behaviors,” Mazar wrote, with co-author Chen-Bo Zhong. “Purchasing green products may license indulgence in self-interested and unethical behaviors.”

Local home-appliance and building contractors who specialize in green products see examples of such indulgence almost every day. They have begun to warn customers that installing green products in their homes does not give them license to overconsume: Don’t run the plasma TV all night just because you put solar panels on your roof; don’t take endless showers because your water is heated off the grid; don’t do more loads of laundry because your machine is energy-efficient.

There is ample reason for such warnings.

Lucas Davis, an energy economist at the University of California, Berkeley, has published a study showing that after getting high-efficiency washers, consumers increased clothes washing by nearly 6 percent. Other studies show that people leave energy-efficient lights on longer. A recent study by the Shelton Group, which advocates for sustainable consumer choices, showed that of 500 people who had greened their homes, a third saw no reduction in bills.

“Subconsciously, I think this is just part of human nature,” said Jason Holstine, owner of Amicus Green Building Center in the Kensington. “It’s like, ‘If I just do a little, I’m off the hook and my conscious is clear. Give me a pat on the back, and thank you very much.’ Then it goes too far.”

“They think, ‘I’m being a good person, I can do more of this stuff and still come out ahead,’ ” said Frank Zeman, director of the Center for Metropolitan Sustainability at New York Institute of Technology. “Although the problem is that they will never come out ahead. This goes to the heart of the sustainability challenge.”

But for luxury retailers, this behavior is often a boon. Uzma Khan, a marketing professor at Stanford who studies the psychology of buying, once asked study participants to choose between buying a vacuum cleaner or designer jeans. Participants who were asked to imagine having committed a virtuous act before shopping were significantly more likely to choose jeans than those not thinking of themselves as virtuous.

“That’s the amazing thing here: People don’t even have to do good for this effect to happen,” Khan said. “Even if they plan to do something good, it will give them a boost in their self-image. Any type of situation where you have guilt involved, you will see this, and so this happens in luxury goods.”

And neither the customer nor the retailer could know it’s happening.

Moral licensing behavior extends, in a different way, into dieting. Khan showed in a study last year that people ate more chocolate while drinking Diet Coke than while drinking more, sugary fare. Dietitians in the region report all sorts of odd justifications from clients eating bad food while trying to lose weight. Rovenia Brock, a District dietitian, says she has clients keep a food and activity diary because it is the only way for them to see that ordering a diet soda at McDonald’s is slowing their progress.

Without the diary, “it’s helter-skelter and their behavior will be all over the place,” Brock said. “It’s like spaghetti on the wall.” When they write down their behavior, the inequitable trade-offs come into full view — if they don’t lie. Many clients, uncomfortable with seeing the truth revealed in their diary, simply leave it out, she said.

Brock said she sympathizes with clients who engage in moral licensing. It turns out that she’s not so different from them. All her diet counseling apparently makes it easier for her to decide to gulp down a pint of Haagen-Dazs banana split ice cream.

“I feel like I deserve to have it,” she said. “I know I’m gonna work out, work it off, blah, blah, blah. It starts out with a cup, and then later on I can hear it calling me from the freezer. One scoop turns into another. Like my clients, if I pick up the pint and put in a spoon, I’m done. That’s my goose cooked, royally.”Similar Posts:

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