True cost of the UK’s obesity crisis revealed – and how weight-loss jabs could be the answer
The UK’s obesity crisis has a real economic cost. Frontier Economics estimates that the combined costs of obesity and people being overweight amount to £126bn a year. This could rise to as much as £150bn in the next decade if action is not taken.
Independent
UK’s obesity and overweight epidemic costs £126bn a year, study suggests
Exclusive: Experts say higher figure than past estimates should be wake-up call for ministers to tackle obesity. The cost of the UK’s epidemic of overweight and obesity has soared to £126bn a year, far higher than previous estimates, according to a study.
The Guardian
Sun, sweat and urban heat islands: How hot is your borough?
Frontier Economics used satellites to do some London-focused urban heat island mapping of their own. It’s these maps that have caused my path to cross with Charlie Bone’s; Frontier examined the average temperature calculated from a summer 2023 heatwave that assaulted London and pulled out the three boroughs which suffered the most: Brent, Barking & Dagenham — and Hammersmith & Fulham.
The Londoner
The True Value of Undersea Cable Security
Europe’s digital economy relies on infrastructure most people never see. Beneath the surface – both figuratively and literally – submarine cables carry a material proportion of cross-border internet traffic, including the data flows generated by the cloud services used by European enterprises.
Infosecurity Magazine
The £25bn-a-year prize at stake in Starmer’s Brexit reset talks with EU
Removing trade barriers on goods, including food and drink and electrical items, could result in a 2.2 per cent uplift in gross domestic product in the long run, boosting the economic growth the prime minister so desperately wants to deliver, financial analysts Frontier Economics found.
The Independent
