Weights & Measures: What Employers Should Know about Obesity — Key Findings

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Weights & Measures: What Employers Should Know about Obesity — Key Findings

Authors:
Barbara Rosen
Linda Barrington, Ph.D.
Publication Date:
May 2008

Drawing from the full Research Report Weights and Measures: What Employers Should Know about Obesity, this set of Key Findings highlights both the rate of obesity in the United States over the past 20 years and the effects it has had in business. Also summarized are the returns on investment (ROI) that three companies are seeing from implemented wellness programs.