Financial incentives needed to curb obesity

Tax breaks are a better way to use wasted taxpayer money

According to the Center for Disease Control Prevention, 63 percent of Nevadans in 2007 were overweight or obese.  This is almost 15 percent increase over a 10 year span, when less than 50 percent of Nevadans fell into these categories.  

According to a 2008 research conducted by Calorie Lab, we are ranked the 37th state in the nation in terms of highest obesity levels. What does this mean for the 36 states before us?  It has been reported by researchers of the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health that by 2030, as much as 86 percent of the entire American population will be overweight or clinically obese. Click here for full article.