The Yahoo! Finance website carried an Associated Press report of research by University of Maine economist Todd Gabe that projects the medical costs of obesity for children and adolescents in Maine could reach $1.2 billion over the next 20 years. Gabe calculated that medical care of obesity cost $453 million in Maine last year.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 13th, 2012 at 11:13 am and is filed under Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture, UMaine in the News.