The UK spends less than Â£638 million a year on obesity prevention programmes-about 1% of the country's social cost of obesity, the study found. But the country spends about Â£6 billion a year on the medical costs of conditions related to being overweight or obese and a further Â£10 billion on diabetes, it claimed.f we reduce obesity to 1993 levels, where 15% of the population were obese, we will avoid five million disease cases and save the NHS alone an additional Â£1.2 billion by 2034.
species (trees, shrubs, insects, fungi, birds, mammals, etc.) that are present in a given environment? It appears that insects may help to get a clearer picture of the situation. Using insects as biodiversity indicators for the boreal forest 62 from the Canadian Forest Service â¢ Laurentian Forestry Centre Number 62 2010
Evergreen species in the taiga (spruce, fir, and pine) have a number of adaptations specifically for survival in harsh taiga winters, although larch, the most cold-tolerant of all trees, is deciduous.he boreal forest, or taiga, supports a relatively small range of animals due to the harshness of the climate. Canada's boreal forest includes 85 species of mammals, 130 species of fish, and an estimated 32,000 species of insects. Insects play a critical role as pollinators, decomposers, and as a part of the food web.