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.
1 $14.3 billion -- This is how much childhood obesity costs the U.S. each year, according to a published study from the Brookings Institution. 2  $62 billion -- Medicare and Medicaid are spending nearly this amount every year on obesity-related costs.ere are 10 shocking numbers related to the costs of obesity: 1  $190 billion -- That's the amount of added medical costs every year that are estimated to stem from obesity-related problems. 2  Itâs nearly 21% of total U.S. health care costs.