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<p>‘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’ 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 ‘Tackling Obesities: Future Choices 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. In 2014 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 of the costs of obesity are planned or have
been made centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Copies of ‘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’; ‘Tackling Obesities: Future Choices’; and the McKinsey Global
Institute’s report ‘Overcoming obesity: An initial economic analysis’ are available
at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/33/4/527/1568587"
target="_blank">https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/33/4/527/1568587</a></p><p>
</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-obesity-future-choices"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-obesity-future-choices</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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