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Study Says More Than Half Of California Adults Are Overweight
By Jim Wasserman, Associated Press Writer - April 7, 2005

SACRAMENTO (AP) _ California, the land of body worshippers and vegetarians, is getting alarmingly fat, with more than half of all adults overweight, according to a new study.

The study released Tuesday estimates that overweight and inactive Californians cost $21.7 billion a year in medical bills, injuries and lost productivity.

It noted that a decade of overeating and sitting in front of the television has given California ``one of the fastest rates of increase in adult obesity of any state in the nation,'' and there is no sign the rise is slowing. State health officials cited a 109 percent increase in overweight Californians between 1991 and 2001.

Nearly 53 percent of Californians over 25 are overweight, and more than 17 percent are obese, or extremely overweight, the study found.

The rates among Hispanics, blacks and adults with less than a high school education are even higher and exceed 60 percent, said the study, which was prepared for the California Department of Health Services. State health officials said California slipped from the sixth most-fit state nationally in 1991 to 27th in 2001, and represented the third-fastest growing state for obesity behind New Mexico and Georgia

Last year, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranked Alabama as the nation's most overweight state.

The California findings come in a state led by former bodybuilder Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who crusades against junk food in schools and wants vending machines stocked with fresh vegetables, milk and other healthy products. California grows half the nation's fresh fruits, nuts and vegetables.

``If we didn't know this is a bad thing to eat junk food day after day after day and nothing else, we could say we don't know any better,'' said A.G. Kawamura, an Orange County farmer who heads Schwarzenegger's Department of Food and Agriculture. ``But we do know better.''

Schwarzenegger, even while trying to tame California's budget deficits, has proposed a new $6 million ``obesity initiative,'' said Susan Foerster, chief of the DHS cancer prevention and nutrition section. That includes money to help local groups generate more interest in healthy food, begin providing weight-gain help to low-income Medi-Cal patients and boost statewide public relations efforts highlighting healthier food.

Foerster said health officials are also talking with fast-food chains about helping increase consumer demand for healthier food and marketing it more aggressively to children.

Fast-food chains said consumer demand will lead them to change their offerings, Foerster said. But by charging the same amount of for healthy food as they do for fat-laden meals, they create a disincentive to buy the healthier food, she said.

The report cited the annual cost of Californians' physical inactivity at $13.3 billion, obesity at $6.4 billion and excess weight at $2 billion. State health officials said the costs amount to at least one missed week of work yearly by the overweight and obese.

``The obesity epidemic is more than public health crisis; it is an economic crisis,'' said Kim Belshe, Schwarzenegger's secretary for health and human services. She said employers can save money and maintain a healthy work force by offering nutritious food at work and opportunities to exercise.

The $30,000 report, conducted for the state by North Carolina-based Chenoweth & Associates, estimates that obesity costs California $11.2 billion annually in lost productivity, $10.2 billion in medical care and $388 million in workers' compensation.

``The majority of those costs were shouldered by public and private employers in the form of health insurance and lost productivity,'' said the study, which analyzed medical claims data.

 
 

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