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 number of people with obesity in the UK has more than trebled in the last 25 years. Doctors now say that the condition is reaching 'epidemic' proportions. A Government report recently claimed that obesity will cost the NHS Â£6.4bn per year by 2015. 2  In England data from 2011 shows that 24.8% of adults (16 or over) and 16.3% of children (2 -15) are obese.