Health Care Costs Escalating- unusual allies Walmart and Unions!

Health Care Costs Escalating

Health costs at Walmart have gone up 50% in 3 years.

Walmart says its employees are sicker than the national average especially with obesity related health problems.

The one-two knockout punch to Walmart and our nations health is pop along with Trans Fatty Acids in fast food, franchise restaurant food, school and employee cafeteria food and grocery store items.

Let me explain.

Sugars in drinks and juices bypass our appetite satiety center; stimulate high insulin levels and abdominal fat accumulation. Each meal has hundreds of added liquid calories! One 18 oz bottle of coke per day adds up to over 7000 spoons of sugar per year. No one can keep up with that for long. We become obese.

Trans fats cause increased heart attacks, gallstones, pregnancy complications, macular degeneration among other ailments.

Health care costs escalate. Blue collar and service industry workers and the young are most vulnerable to this nutrition knowledge gap. Many who do know, have no choice as they can only afford cheap fast food.

US Corporations pay health care benefits to many employees. Rapidly inflating health insurance costs are a big concern. Unions have had to give concessions lately on health care issues. All pay higher health insurance premiums.

Fast food Corporations use Trans Fat Oils because it costs them less. Others profit greatly on pop.

Unions and corporations need to realize that they are enhancing McDonald’s, KFC and other TFA purveyors’ bottom line as well that of Coke, Pepsi and others that sell high sugar drinks, while their own bottom line suffers as health care costs rise.

Both need to join the battle against sugar and trans fats. They need to demand that schools sell no pop. They need to demand that KFC, McDonald’s and other fast and franchise food places remove Trans Fats from their food. They need to put their clout behind the push to totally ban trans fats. Maybe Walmart, GM and others should even push for a sugar tax on pop!

Or just push for universal health insurance and never again worry about their employees’ health or how much it costs them.