 | One Nation, Overweight
The numbers are devastating: $147 billion a year. Over 200 million Americans, including a third of our children are at risk. Obesity is our largest public health crisis. Go inside the race to beat obesity, where the waistline meets the bottom line. Reported by Scott Wapner.
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| | | | Obesity is now the number one health problem in the U.S. today and it costs the nation as much as $147 billion and an untold number of lives every year. Nearly two-thirds of American adults are either overweight or obese. Childhood obesity is triple what it was a generation ago. This adds up to a public health crisis that feeds a $60 billion industry of products, services, diets and foods designed to help people lose weight.
Tonight, watch CNBC as correspondent Scott Wapner goes inside the war on fat, where employees and employers are battling the bulge. Wapner reveals where the waistline meets the bottom line.
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