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Article: Policing the Dietary Do's and Doughnuts; Amid a rise in diet-related ailments, employers worry about waistlines as well as bottom lines.
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- June 23, 2008
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Byline: Rena Singer
TOKYO--Sunstar Inc., makers of GUM and Butler brand oral hygiene products, will be sending select employees to a most unusual three-day company retreat this year. The goal isn't higher productivity, product development, or team building but instead slim waistlines. Sunstar's fat farm is part of a broad range of programs now being instituted by companies and the government here as Japan begins its battle with the bulge.
In a country seemingly devoid of Rubenesque curves, a country in which tofu makes regular appearances on menus and bean paste serves as a common substitute for chocolates in desserts, a country with the best longevity rates in the ...
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