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.
Overweight and obesity also have an increasing economic impact. For example, in the US healthcare system, medical costs of obesity are estimated to have increased from US$78.5 billion in 1998 to $147 billion in 2008. Prevention of obesity is often considered a means to reduce this economic burden. Still, information on the costâeffectiveness (CE) and long-term costs of preventing weight gain and obesity is limited to a few, mostly recently published analyses (see reviews by MÃ¼ller-Riemenschneider et al. and John et al.).