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Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Back Pain Dominate Us Health Care Spending

Just 20 problems account for half of all spending on health care issues in the U.S., as reported by Science Daily. The most expensive condition is diabetes, with a whopping $101 billion cost. This is not surprising. In truth, if you add up all the related costs of diabetes, it tops a mind-boggling $1.4 trillion! And one of the chief cause of all this is the ready access to, and consumption of, junk foods. The issue is so serious worldwide that the United Nations is calling the availability...