Report: Obesity hurts your wallet and your health

If you want to get the REAL first study of this issue, go here. Still this Johnny-come-lately study only reiterates what has been known all along. Fat costs.

Obesity puts a drag on the wallet as well as health, especially for women.

Doctors have long known that medical bills are higher for the obese, but that's only a portion of the real-life costs.

George Washington University researchers added in things like employee sick days, lost productivity, even the need for extra gasoline — and found the annual cost of being obese is $4,879 for a woman and $2,646 for a man.

That's far more than the cost of being merely overweight — $524 for women and $432 for men, concluded the report being released Tuesday, which analyzed previously published studies to come up with a total.

Remember, none of this includes the extra costs the rest of us incur for the caloric irresponsibility of the overfat.