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When it comes to health, you are what you eat, as the adage goes. But many Americans have little choice in the matter, with race being an even bigger determinant than poverty.
US consumers' preference for lighter beverages is impacting alcoholic drinks innovation. The low-calorie and low-sugar labels seen in emerging products such as hard seltzers (also known as alcoholic waters) particularly appeal to US millennials, 66% of which state they are often or always influenced by how a product impacts their health and wellbeing when choosing alcoholic beverages.
Steady reductions in smoking combined with advances in cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment have resulted in a 23% drop in the cancer death rate since its peak in 1991. The drop translates to more than 1.7 million cancer deaths averted through 2012.
The third big problem is Medicare and rising health care costs, which are bankrupting this country. Let me tell you the brutal truth. Nobody knows how to reduce health care inflation. There are two basic approaches, and we probably have to try both simultaneously. The first, included in Obamacare, is to have an Independent Payment Advisory Board find efficiencies and impose price controls.
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