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Article: Excess spending: lack of physical activity, obesity and overweight workers cost the State's economy $21.7b in 2000, according to 2005 study.(reports of obesity)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- April 10, 2006
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An invisible robber works through the day and night, eating at companies' bottom lines. But few employers are aggressively defending themselves against the sticky-handed bandit--obesity.
While some companies in San Diego County have adopted wellness programs that include on-site gyms, healthier cafeteria food or discounts on diet programs, few, if any, track the cost of the national epidemic to their organization--a big mistake, say national and local experts whose data shows the obesity problem is not getting smaller and that the corporate sector bears much of the brunt.
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