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
Coniferous forests are found mostly in the northern parts of North America, Europe, and Asia. Other names for the coniferous forest are: taiga (Russian for swamp forest) and boreal forest.The trees making up the coniferous forest are cone-bearing trees like the spruce, pine, fir and hemlock. These trees have needle-like leaves that keep their green color throughout the entire year.epending on the type of trees in that area forests can be further divided into five main categories. These are: coniferous forest, deciduous forest, mixed leaved forest, Mediterranean forest, and tropical rainforests. Below are their descriptions.