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Employers-Workers Team Up for Healthy Bottom Lines The path to a bigger bottom-line is a smaller waste-lines for employees. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has a website to help employers combat obesity and reduce health-related costs. What does obesity cost your organization? In 2005-2006, 34% of U.S. adults and 16% of U.S. children and adolescents were obese. In 2000, obesity-related health care costs totaled an estimated $117 billion. Between 1987 and 2001, diseases associated with obesity accounted for 27% of the increases in medical costs. Medical expenditures for obese workers, depending on severity of obesity and sex, are between 29%–117% greater than expenditures for workers with normal weight. Do you want to know how much obesity costs your organization? What your return on investment from implementing your own obesity intervention might be? If so, visit CDC’s LEAN Works! LEAN Works! is a free web-based resource that offers evidence-based research to help you plan, build, promote, and assess an obesity prevention and control program for your worksite. Key Features of the Web site include: Estimate of medical costs attributable to high BMI, Annual work loss costs attributable to high BMI, Return on investment for obesity interventions, PowerPoint presentation to pitch an obesity prevention program, Health Risk Assessment tool to collect baseline employee information (nutrition and physical activity), Health Culture and Environmental Audit tool to assess the physical features of your worksite, Employee Interest Survey to gauge interest in worksite nutrition and physical activity programs. To get started with the CDC’s , log-on to the CDC website at: Content Source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Image Credit: Center for Disease Control. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the nation’s premier public health agency working to ensure healthy people in a healthy world. Located on the Internet at: www.cdc.gov Estimate Your Life-Expectancy ... Take the Death Calculator Longevity Quiz

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