Ailing and overweight Americans cost billions in productivity
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WASHINGTON – 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.
Compared with non-overweight healthy workers, the 86 percent of U.S. workers who have weight or health issues, or both, miss an [...]


