Claim: Obesity costs the economy £27 billion a year.
Fact-check: What does obesity cost the economy? - Full Fact
Verdict: this is the best estimate we've got of the total cost of obesity and being overweight to the nhs and the economy. but it's based on analysis that's over a decade old and there's a lot of uncertainty to the numbers.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Laura O'Brien
Date published: 2016-03-17T00:00:00