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
Boreal forests occur in the more southern parts of the Taiga ecoregion that spreads across the northern parts of the world. Distribution of taiga and boreal forests in North America (dark blue area in Canada and Alaska).Canada 's boreal forest comprises about one third of the circumpolar boreal forest that rings the Northern Hemisphere, mostly north of the 50th parallel.he boreal region contains about 14% of Canadaâs population. With its sheer vastness and forest cover, the boreal makes an important contribution to the rural and aboriginal economies of Canada, primarily through resource industries, recreation, hunting, fishing and eco-tourism.