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<p><em>The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking,
alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006-07 NHS costs</em> estimated that
overweight and obesity cost the National Health Service in the United Kingdom £5.1
billion per year. This figure was uplifted to £6.1 billion in 2014-15 to take account
of inflation.</p><p> </p><p>The Foresight team published <em>Tackling Obesities: Future
Choices</em> in 2007. This estimated the annual costs of overweight and obesity to
society and the economy as £27 billion in 2015, based on obesity prevalence at the
time. More recently the McKinsey Global Institute estimated the cost of obesity to
the UK economy as £46 billion per year.</p><p> </p><p>No further estimates have been
made centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Copies of <em>The economic burden of ill health due
to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to
2006-07 NHS costs; </em><em>Tackling Obesities: Future Choices; </em>and the McKinsey
Global Institute’s report <em>Overcoming obesity: An initial economic analysis </em>are
available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/05/11/pubmed.fdr033.full.pdf+html"
target="_blank">http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/05/11/pubmed.fdr033.full.pdf+html</a></p><p>
</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287937/07-1184x-tackling-obesities-future-choices-report.pdf"
target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287937/07-1184x-tackling-obesities-future-choices-report.pdf</a></p><p>
</p><p><a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/how-the-world-could-better-fight-obesity"
target="_blank">www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/how-the-world-could-better-fight-obesity</a></p>
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