Dina Goheen's List: Essay2

• • Massachusetts health care reform and how 97% of the people are insured but looks like feds are picking up the bill by upping the amount that is covered by medicaid.
    States costs only went up 1%.  looks like feds subsidizes 25% of states increased spending
    

• • good information. Charts and graph showing health care spending 1960vs2009.  

• • EXCELLENT. stats on chronic illness and obesity....list the 4 most common causes of chronic death. 
• 7 out of 10 deaths among Americans each year are from chronic diseases. Heart disease, cancer and stroke account for more than 50% of all deaths each year.
• besity has become a major health concern. 1 in every 3 adults is obese³ and almost 1 in 5 youth between the ages of 6 and 19 is obese (BMI ≥ 95th percentile of the CDC growth chart).⁴
• More than one-third of all adults do not meet recommendations for aerobic physical activity based on the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, and 23% report no leisure-time physical activity at all in the preceding month.⁸

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• • 2009 statistics on chronic disease and diet
    

• • TONS of statistics on medicaid spending

• • healthy weight and BMI
• • 07 survey 68% adults over weight.  Give percentage on kids being over weight.
• ccording to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data from 2007–08, the overall prevalence of overweight and obesity for adults was 68 percent. Children have become heavier as well.
• n the past 30 years, the prevalence of childhood obesity has more than doubled among children ages 2-5, has tripled among youth ages 6-11, and has more than tripled among adolescents ages 12-19.

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• • explains which foods to increase in your diet and why

• • heart disease and heart attack

  • symptoms
    
• The most common symptom of coronary artery disease is angina, or chest pain. Angina can be described as a discomfort, heaviness, pressure, aching, burning, fullness, squeezing, or painful feeling in your chest. It can be mistaken for indigestion or heartburn.
• • eakness or fatigue (feeling very tired).
   
   

  Symptoms of Atrial Fib

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• • unemployment rate

• • top o fpage 2

  • gives figures about the feds health care spending as of 2008

• • chronic disease definition

• • subsidy definition

• • shows study done about how eating healthy does cost more.  Study concluded buying healthier food would cost more but did not include cost of eating out.
• In an article in Health Affairs published on Thursday, the researchers reported that eating more potassium, the most expensive of the four nutrients, can add $380 to the average person's yearly food costs.
• mericans spend about $4,000 on food each year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• getting more calories from saturated fat and sugar reduces overall food costs, the study said.
• ablo Monsivais, acting assistant professor at the University of Washington and one of the study's authors, said the government should consider the economic impact of food guidelines.
• "We know that dietary guidelines aren't making a bit of difference in what we eat and our health overall," he said. "And I think one missing piece is that they have to be economically relevant."
• More than one-third of children and two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese
• However, they did not factor in costs for food bought outside grocery stores, such as fast food -- which would likely increase the food cost for each person.
• Monsivais said when talking about eating more fruits and vegetables, the government should also mention the most cut-price options. For examples, bananas and potatoes are the cheapest sources of potassium

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• To lose one pound, a person must burn 3,500 calories more than are consumed (500 calories per day over the course of a week).

• More than one-third of U.S. adults (35.7%) are obese.
• Obesity-related conditions include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer, some of the leading causes of death
• In 2008, medical costs associated with obesity were estimated at $147 billion; the medical costs paid by third-party payors for people who are obese were $1,429 higher than those of normal weight.

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• • bmi and what ranges represent

• study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine found that participants who made one small, potentially permanent change in their food choices and/or physical activity each week (such as drinking one fewer can of soda or walking 5 more minutes each day) lost more than twice as much belly fat, 2 1/2 more inches off their waistlines, and about 4 times more weight during a 4-month program, compared with those who followed traditional calorie-restriction and physical-activity guidelines.