Ailing and overweight Americans cost billions in productivity

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WASHINGTON | Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:05am EDT (Reuters) – Full-time U.S. workers who have chronic health troubles or are overweight cost more than $153 billion in lost productivity each year from absenteeism, according to a Gallup-Healthways study released on Monday.


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