The report says that "Anti-aging" medicine is a "multi-billion dollar industry in the U.S." The industry "is under the control of non-scientists who use terms like 'virtual immortality' and 'an ageless society' to attract customers to untested remedies that have not withstood the rigors of serious clinical trials" and that often have dangerous side effects, when perhaps the best way to add ten years to life is to eat right and exercise.
At the same time, a report put out by the University of Rhode Island suggests that obesity is a growing threat to world health, hitting countries like Australia, Egypt and even remote islands of the Pacific.
In 1995, there were an estimated 200 million obese adults and 22 million children worldwide. By 2000, the number had skyrocketed to more than 300 million. In developing countries, it is now estimated that more than 115 million people suffer from obesity-related problems, including Type II Diabetes, heart disease and obesity-related cancers. In the U.S. alone, child obesity has increased by more than 1 percent per year over the past decade with an estimated $99.2 billion in future health care costs, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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