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Lose weight. Obesity is linked to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and more. Obese people spend a third more than fit people on health services and three-quarters more on medications, according to Rand Health. The average annual out-of-pocket cost for diabetics is $454, according to an analysis of government data conducted by Nationwide Better Health, a health-management company. But those costs skyrocket to $12,000 or more for the 1 in 2 diabetics who do not carefully tend to their illness, says Nationwide. Bottom line: shed some pounds, avoid these diseases and invest the related windfall from...
When Jobs, who battled pancreatic cancer four years ago and has been the subject of whispers of ill health since he appeared looking gaunt at the Macworld conference in June, took the stage today, it was in front of a giant slide that said, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated...
None of this absolves the rest of us from our own behavior. Think of all those fools standing in front of office buildings and restaurants grabbing a cigarette. Think of our national epidemic of obesity, which researchers believe has many links to cancer...
...Cancer has become a little too familiar to us, too much a part of our social fabric. We embrace it with runs and walks and swims and bike rides that bring people together to raise funds and hopes and share their grief. "It's tough. We are a very optimistic organization, and all of our materials are about living every day to the fullest and living strong and fighting cancer. But at the end of the day, if you look at what's happened, some would argue that we haven't been that successful," says LAF's Ulman...
...Livestrong ride, run and walk in the Philadelphia area, some 5,000 people took part on a beautiful summer day to raise $3 million for the LAF. "These aren't fun runs," says Armstrong. "They are very emotional, tearful times." Some participants had cancer; some were survivors. And most of those who rode by bore on their backs the names of dead relatives, a rolling graveyard passing through the placid Pennsylvania countryside...