The Elephant in the room

[Trek420]

Not to politicize the board and I don't care whether you're blue or red or Dem or Republican I think I have found something we all can agree or nearly agree on while different viewpoints will abound:

Question for the group: can bikes, running, exercise along with sensible healthy eating solve or at least help the US health care crisis?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/op...0pollan&st=cse


quote from the article "We’re spending $147 billion to treat obesity, $116 billion to treat diabetes, and hundreds of billions more to treat cardiovascular disease and the many types of cancer that have been linked to the so-called Western diet. One recent study estimated that 30 percent of the increase in health care spending over the past 20 years could be attributed to the soaring rate of obesity, a condition that now accounts for nearly a tenth of all spending on health care."