Study: Obesity Is More Expensive for Women

As Obamacare kicks in, plan on more articles about heath being released, pointing us in the right direction, to save our country's health costs. Here's one that I found today. by Lauren Frayer.

(Sept. 21) -- Obesity hurts your health, but it also hurts your wallet.

That's the conclusion of a new study by George Washington University scholars who've tabulated the cost of being obese, compared to merely being overweight. The results found that obesity costs women almost twice as much as men. And it's more than nine times as costly for women to be obese, rather than just overweight.