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• CBS News: Wellness Programs May Trim Health Costs
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• Business Week: Get Healthy or Else
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• CBS News: Wellness Programs May Trim Health Costs
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• CDC: Health in the United States, 2006
  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus06.pdf#highlights
• Cost-Saving Wellness Incentive Programs
  http://hrtrainingcenter.com/showWCDetails.asp?TCID=1001551
• HR Capitalist: Meet Your Future in Controlling Health Care Costs
  http://www.hrcapitalist.com/2007/02/meet_your_futur.html
• IBM: Promoting Health & Well-Being
  http://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/people/wellbeing/promoting-health.shtml
• Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. June 2006. The Future of Health Promotion/Disease Prevention Programs http://www.mdconsult.com/das/article/body/82905171-3/jorg
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• Merrill Lynch Platinum WELCOA Application
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• NCHS: Physical Activity Among Adults: United States, 2000 and 2005
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Workplace Wellness
  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/15/BUGL6QFGU91.DTL
• Scotts Miracle Gro Company: Pioneering Workplace Wellness Programs
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  pioneering-workplace-wellness-programs/
• Shape Up Your Company With a Wellness Program
  http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/resources/management/
  recruiting-staffing/shape-up-your-company-with-a-wellness-program.aspx
• Unity Healthcare: First for Kids Program
  http://unityhealth.com/HealthyU/Fitness_First_for_Kids/index.htm
• The Wellness Councils of America
  http://www.welcoa.org/wellworkplace/?PHPSESSID=
  92c40e5f3bf699c57e3f6d2692525009