Obesity costs TX employers $9.5BA new report by Texas Comptroller Susan Combs, Gaining Costs, Losing Time, estimates that obesity costs Texas businesses $9.5 billion annually in health insurance costs, absenteeism, reduced work productivity and disability. The recent price tag is almost triple the estimate Combs released in 2007. The comptroller warns that if Texans don’t effectively address the battle of the bulge, the cost to businesses could reach $32.5 billion annually by 2030.
Two-thirds of all adult Texans — or 66.7 percent — were either overweight or obese in 2009. This is higher than the national rate of 63.2 percent. Among Texas children aged 10 to 17, 20.4 percent are obese. This is a problem because obese kids have an 80 percent chance of staying obese their entire lives.
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Two-thirds of all adult Texans — or 66.7 percent — were either overweight or obese in 2009. This is higher than the national rate of 63.2 percent. Among Texas children aged 10 to 17, 20.4 percent are obese. This is a problem because obese kids have an 80 percent chance of staying obese their entire lives.
Read more: Obesity costs TX employers $9.5B Dallas Business Journal
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