The national median nurse starting salary is projected at $66,640 during 2016-2017, with overall employment in the field expected to rise 16% within the next decade. Nurse Practitioners have the highest of all employees in the field ($95,350-95,820). The current RN starting salary is $15,000 more than that of an LPN.
Actually, obesity isn't what is killing people â our high sugar/high carb diet is. Being fat is a symptom of what is killing us, not the cause. Be fat and eat protein/healthy fats and you can be perfectly healthy. Be skinny and eat a high sugar diet (like most other Americans) and you can be quite unhealthy and die as a result. Cristy. I also wanted to add â inflammation is a huge factor here.
What research now shows, however, is the two major recommendations (limit fat and consume a lot of carbohydrates) could be a root cause of the current obesity epidemic. Just a decade after the food pyramid was released, 82% of Americans surveyed believed the food pyramid was the key to a healthy diet. Even so, many Americans were overweight or obese. Following the principles of the food pyramid didnât reduce the obesity rate.