According to a new report, one third of U.S. adults are obese along with one in six children.
The research was conducted by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and, as Statista's Nial McCarthy explains, it found that the adult obesity rate exceeded 35 percent in five states, 30 percent in 25 states and 25 percent in 46 states.
Local governments are now issuing curfews across South Florida.
Broward County has issued a curfew starting at 4:00 pm and remains in effect until further notice.
A mandatory curfew will also be in place tonight in Coral Springs from 8:00 p.m. – 6:00 a.m.
The City of Fort Lauderdale will enforce a Countywide curfew beginning at 4 p.m.
The opioid epidemic isn’t the only public-health crisis costing the economy hundreds of billions of dollars. According to the Trust for America’s Health’s annual “State of Obesity” report, nearly 40% of American adults are obese or overweight. And collectively, they will add some $150 billion to the cost of health care, and billions more in lost productivity.
By Priceonomics
There are more options to get food—as in the kind you eat at home rather than at a restaurant—than ever before.
Sure, there are traditional brick-and-mortar stores, like Costco and Trader Joe’s. But in the last decade there’s been a boom in food services that can be managed through a digital app.
Following up on last week's story that sent grocer - and Wal-mart - stocks tumbling, when Amazon annonced it would cut Whole Foods prices as soon as Monday, Bloomberg reports that according to channel checks, "Amazon spent its first day as the owner of a brick-and-mortar grocery chain cutting prices at Whole Foods Market" by as much as 43%.
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