[WATCH]: Dr. Michael Roizen: "How to get and stay healthier with a focus on combatting heart disease" (Long)

In this presentation, Dr. Michael Roizen, Chief Wellness Officer and Chair of the Wellness Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, talks about what has been done at the Cleveland Clinic to help employees, and other people in the community, to get and stay healthy -- with a focus on atherosclerosis and heart disease. Dr. Roizen explains why getting a handle on health care costs is so important. In short, tackling healthcare costs should be a strategic national priority because it's the main driver of costs in our budget. If we don't take control of diabetes, obesity, and atherosclerosis, it threatens to drive up the cost of healthcare to the point where we lose our manufacturing base, our service jobs, and everything that's not strictly

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