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 annual health-care costs for people who are extremely obese are almost twice those of normal-weight people. Very sobering is the fact that severe obesity is increasing at a much faster rate than moderate obesity, quadrupling from 1986â2000.6.