The Herald has published an op-ed I wrote about the costs of obesity.
We’re all going to die. We’re not all going to die tomorrow, although these days it feels like the apocalypse is looming, but it will happen to all of us.
This rather uncomfortable fact often escapes some policymakers and public health experts.
They forget all lives, and indeed all deaths, have a fiscal cost, writes Jenesa Jeram.
I wrote the piece after reading a paper about the net costs of obesity by the Institute of Economic Affairs. I don’t know when it happened, but I’m now the kind of person who gets really excited about these things. This wasn’t just another Cost of Illness (CoI) study, it actually looked at NET costs. There aren’t enough studies like this. As my Herald op-ed notes (in excruciatingly little detail due to word count constraints), net costs matter because they are the closest…
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