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The effects of obesity cost the UK economy £2bn annually in health service bills and lost work hours.
Whereas the problems it addresses – chronic health issues related to bad diet, and obesity – cost us all a huge amount of money.
One study cited by federal health officials estimates that, in 2008, obesity cost the U.S. a hundred and forty-seven billion dollars in health-care charges and resulted in about three hundred thousand deaths.
Obesity cost the NHS £16bn in 2007, but I hear no calls from him to tax the supermarkets that sell us the processed food that makes us fat, or calls for taxes (or at least reduced subsidies) on the sugar that goes into them.
The cost data was modeled using a two-part model, 13, 14 a commonly used approach for the analysis of obesity cost data.
This was also found in this first analysis of obesity cost in the Thai context, where obesity-attributable costs were found to be substantial, accounting for 0.13% of GDP or 1.5% of the total national health expenditure.
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While a man racks up $2,646 annually in extra expenses if he is obese, a woman's obesity costs her $4,879, almost twice as much.
Instead, they look at what obesity costs society or insurers.
This infographic shows how much obesity costs employers.
Obesity costs companies $45 billion a year, according to a report by the Conference Board and RTI International, a research institute.
Type 2 diabetes, one of the main consequences of obesity, costs the NHS £8.8bn a year.
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