Obesity is the Biggest Challenge in Healthcare

A Poll of Both Americans and Healthcare Professionals

A Poll of Both Americans and Healthcare Professionals both reveal that both professionals and average Americans agree that Obesity is the largest challenge facing healthcare today. If you ask 100 people what the biggest challenge facing healthcare is in our day, you will have an overwhelming response that obesity is the biggest problem vexing healthcare. No doubt a dozen different answers will come up, but an overwhelming emphasis will show that Americans being overweight is leading to challenges of epidemic proportions and that something must be done about it or healthcare will be forever changed in a way that is for the worse.


Tackling Obesity in Healthcare

Naturally because of my relationship with Weightlosswars, I have come to appreciate and understand the enormous impact that community weight loss, and weight loss competitions can have on the overall health and wellness of individuals, groups, teams, and employee groups. Companies have found over and over again that when they institute weight loss challenges in their workplace, that excitement grows, and weight loss occurs at a more rapid and sustained rate than in the absence of a competition or challenge that takes on the attributes of a competition. When companies add financial incentives, the results improve even more than with competition aspects alone.

UCLA Confirms that Community Weight Loss Aids Progress

I came across and article about UCLA's medical center recently and it caught my eye regarding their thoughts on how to tackle the biggest issues facing healthcare in today's world. In a press release, they stated that "Some of the biggest challenges in health care - from obesity to smoking-related cancers - are best dealt with from the perspective of community, said Washington. UCLA Health Sciences has bold plans for partnering with multidisciplinary institutions to tackle high-impact problems on a broad scale." This stood out to me in a number of ways because you find that a vast number of these kind of problems can be dealt with if there is a strong support system in place. This information affirms the legitimacy of weight loss competitions in the lives of Americans.