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Article: The Bottom Line: Employers Can Manage Obesity Problem with Actionable Information.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- September 12, 2007
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The numbers tell the story: obesity has moved beyond "fat jokes" to become a serious health issue in the United States. In just two decades, national obesity prevalence rates doubled, causing the U.S. Surgeon General to declare in 2001 that obesity is a national epidemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently reported numbers suggesting that nationally, 33% of adult females and 31% of adult males are obese. A 2004 CDC study estimated obesity-related medical costs at $75 billion in 2003. A serious and costly health issue, obesity is closing in on tobacco use as the country's most costly risk precursor.
Obesity is ...