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Healthy Choices
Don’t Just Sit there: Eat your Colors!

Obesity is expensive!

MN spent an estimated 1.3 billion on the care of patients with obesity related illnesses in 1998-2000

Forty studies indicate Obesity is linked to TV watching

www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/economic_consequences.htm

Obesity related illnesses include:

Hypertension
High cholesterol
Type II Diabetes
Coronary heart disease & Angina
Congestive heart failure
Strokes
Gallstones
Gout
Osteoarthritis
Sleep apnea

Asthma and other respiratory difficulties
Cancer (gender specific and colon)
Pregnancy complication
Hormonal irregularities
Incontinence
Kidney stones
Mental illnesses (depression, eating disorders, distorted self concept)

See www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/consequences.htm