Well, if your home is in Nebraska, filling a 500-gallon propane tank (300 gallons if you are at 20% capacity and fill it to 80%) will cost you $562 at current average propane prices per gallon, compared to $397 last year.
Treating obesity and obesity-related conditions costs billions of dollars a year. By one estimate, the U.S. spent $190 billion on obesity-related health care expenses in 2005-double previous estimates.
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.