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\u2018The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006-07 NHS costs\u2019 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>
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The Foresight team published \u2018Tackling Obesities: Future Choices in 2007\u2019. 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>
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No further estimates of the costs of obesity are planned or have been made centrally.<\/p>
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Copies of \u2018The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006-07 NHS costs\u2019; \u2018Tackling Obesities: Future Choices\u2019; and the McKinsey Global Institute\u2019s report \u2018Overcoming obesity: An initial economic analysis\u2019 are available at the following links:<\/p>
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https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/33/4/527/1568587<\/a><\/p> <\/p> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-obesity-future-choices<\/a><\/p> <\/p>