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A NYTer’s poem after taking the buyout. Read the rest. (via thedeadline)

So true.

A study in the January-February 2009 issue of the journal Health Affairs concluded that 75 percent of the country’s $2.5 trillion in health care spending has to do with four increasingly prevalent chronic diseases: obesity, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Most cases of these diseases, the report stated, are preventable because they are caused by behaviors like poor diets, inadequate exercise and smoking.

NY Times: Health Care Savings May Start in Employee Diets (via jayparkinsonmd and evangotlib) (via david)