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Cost overall. you look at doss of obesity overall. as things stand now, $147 billion a year. break that down specifically in childhood obesity, per year. $14 billion associated with chronic disease, associated with childhood obesity. what's projected to happen over the next eight years, just in eight years, not even a decade, $344 billion will be the cost of taking care of diseases associated with obesity and specifically break that down into health care expenditures a quarter, 21% of total medical costs to treat the diseases. $144 billion a year now. to give you a scale of reference now to ta...