Defusing the health care time bomb

Until we start ratcheting down our added sugar consumption, expect to keep ratcheting up the health care dollars wasted.

First it was our national embarrassment, then our national tragedy, and it is rapidly morphing into our national time bomb. On its present trajectory (a 70 percent increase since 2000), obesity and related chronic diseases will break the bank on Medicare by 2024. This is maddening, especially because 75 percent of these diseases and resultant health care expenditures are preventable. The solution must start with a re-evaluation of the American food system.

Robert H. Lustig

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Robert H. Lustig

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