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.
The facts are staggering: 1  In the year 2000, the total annual cost of obesity in the United States was $117 billion. While extra value meals may save us some change at the counter, theyre costing us billions of dollars in health care and lost productivity. Physical inactivity and super-sized meals are leading to a nation of oversized people.