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Re:Being Fit May Be as Good for You as Not Smoking by oftenwrong on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @03:04PM (#18719005)
>The lion's share of health care costs are end of life treatments; don't have to worry about those if you die of a heart attack at age 45.

Well, you do still have to worry about those, but earlier than expected.

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Re:Being Fit May Be as Good for You as Not Smoking by learc83 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:48PM (#18722587)
Overweight people are actually cheaper to care for in the long run.

"Although effective obesity prevention leads to a decrease in costs of obesity-related diseases, this decrease is offset by cost increases due to diseases unrelated to obesity in life-years gained. Obesity prevention may be an important and cost-effective way of improving public health, but it is not a cure for increasing health expenditures."

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

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