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theQuotes[0] = '&ldquo;In 1980, employers spent an average of $580 per employee on health coverage versus today’s average employee cost of $7,500 &mdash; an astonishing 1,142% increase!&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">United States Chamber of Commerce</span>'

theQuotes[1] = '&ldquo;Health care costs are rising between 8% and 17% annually.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">Centers for Disease Control</span>'

theQuotes[2] = '&ldquo;Reports indicate that anywhere from 75% to 90% of health care spending goes to treat &ldquo;preventable&rdquo; conditions resulting from poor lifestyle choices such as tobacco use and behaviors that lead to obesity.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">Centers for Disease Control, Partnership for Prevention, New England Journal of Medicine</span>'

theQuotes[3] = '&ldquo;The average annual cost to an employer for each smoker in its population is $3,391 in smoking-related medical costs and lost productivity.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 12, 2002</span>'

theQuotes[4] = '&ldquo;Indirect costs, such as absenteeism, under-productivity and presenteeism can cost U.S. employers two to three times their direct medical costs &mdash; nearly $1,700 per employee per year.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">Edington DW, Burton WN. Health & Productivity. In: McCunney, RJ: A Practical Approach to Occupational & Environmental Medicine. Philadelphis: Lippincott Williams & Wilkens. 3rd ed. 2003: 140-152</span>'

theQuotes[5] = '&ldquo;U.S. health care spending has increased from 5% of GDP in 1960 to 16% in 2004, and is expected to increase to 18.7% by 2014.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)</span>'

theQuotes[6] = '&ldquo;As a nation, we are annually spending more than $2 trillion dollars a year on health care.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">U.S. Department of Health & Human Services</span>'

theQuotes[7] = '&ldquo;31% of corporate health care costs are surgery-related, which equates to $480 billion, with 75% of surgeries deemed discretionary and as high as 33% deemed unnecessary.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">RAND Corp study (RAND RB4522)</span>'

theQuotes[8] = '&ldquo;90% of adults can prevent weight gain by increasing daily physical activity by just 2,000 steps and eating 100 few calories.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">Hill JO, Wyatt H, et al.  Science, vol 299: February 7, 2003</span>'

theQuotes[9] = '&ldquo;Losing as little as 5% to 10% of total weight can significantly improve health.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">Diabetes Prevention Research Group, JAMA, vol 346, no 6:February 7, 2003</span>'

theQuotes[10] = '&ldquo;20-30 minutes per day of walking provides most of the health benefits of more intensive exercise while minimizing health risks.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Prevention Makes Common Cents, September 2003</span>'

theQuotes[11] = '&ldquo;Approximately 129 million U.S. adults are overweight or obese which costs this Nation anywhere from $69 billion to $117 billion per year.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Prevention Makes Common Cents, September 2003</span>'

theQuotes[12] = '&ldquo;In 2000, an estimated 17 million people (6.2 percent of the population) had diabetes, costing the U.S. approximately $132 billion. People with diabetes lost more than 8 days per year from work, accounting for 14 million disability days.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Prevention Makes Common Cents, September 2003</span>'

theQuotes[13] = '&ldquo;Heart disease and stroke are the first and third leading causes of death in the United States. In 2003 alone, 1.1 million Americans had heart attacks.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Prevention Makes Common Cents, September 2003</span>'

theQuotes[14] = '&ldquo;Cardiovascular diseases cost the Nation more than $300 billion each year.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Prevention Makes Common Cents, September 2003</span>'

theQuotes[15] = '&ldquo;Approximately 23 million adults and 9 million children have been diagnosed with asthma at some point within their lifetime, with costs near $14 billion per year.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Prevention Makes Common Cents, September 2003</span>'

theQuotes[16] = '&ldquo;According to the National Sleep Foundation, sleep deprivation costs U.S. business more than $100 billion a year in lost productivity and damage to workers’ health and safety.&rdquo;'

theQuotes[17] = '&ldquo;A study by NASA found that a 26-minute nap increased pilots&rsquo; performance by 34%.&rdquo;'

theQuotes[18] = '&ldquo;Studies have suggested that walking at a brisk pace for three or more hours a week can reduce your risk for coronary heart disease by 65 percent.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">National Women&rsquo;s Health Resource Center, Inc., 2003</span>'

theQuotes[19] = '&ldquo;About 25 percent of American adults &mdash; and an even greater percentage of women &mdash; are sedentary. After age 44, upwards of 30 percent of women are sedentary, and by age 65, the proportion increases to almost 35 percent. By the time they reach age 75, about 50 percent of all women are sedentary.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">National Women&rsquo;s Health Resource Center, Inc., 2003</span>'

theQuotes[20] = '&ldquo;Only about 22 percent of American adults engage in regular, sustained physical activity for at least 30 minutes five times a week, and only 15 percent exercise both regularly and vigorously.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">National Women&rsquo;s Health Resource Center, Inc., 2003</span>'

theQuotes[21] = '&ldquo;No matter how poor your current level of fitness, you can start an exercise routine and become fitter and healthier. Even 90-year-old women who use walkers have been shown in studies to benefit from light weight training.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">National Women&rsquo;s Health Resource Center, Inc., 2003</span>'

theQuotes[22] = '&ldquo;Simply adding movement into your daily routine can increase your level of fitness. For example, if you park in the last row of the parking lot and walk briskly five minutes each way between your office and your car, walk up and down the stairs at your office during your 10-minute afternoon coffee break, and walk the dog for 10 minutes when you get home, you&rsquo;ve racked up 30 minutes of exercise for the day.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">National Women&rsquo;s Health Resource Center, Inc., 2003</span>'

theQuotes[23] = '&ldquo;Women with heart disease or arthritis actually experience improved daily function from involvement in various modes of physical activity.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">National Women&rsquo;s Health Resource Center, Inc., 2003</span>'

theQuotes[24] = '&ldquo;Fitness consists of four components: your body&rsquo;s ability to use oxygen as a source of energy, which translates into cardiovascular fitness; muscular strength and endurance; flexibility; and body composition.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">National Women&rsquo;s Health Resource Center, Inc., 2003</span>'

theQuotes[25] = '&ldquo;To address all the components of fitness, an exercise program needs to include aerobic exercise, which is continuous repetitive movement of large muscle groups that raises your heart rate; weight lifting or strength training; and flexibility exercises or stretching.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">National Women&rsquo;s Health Resource Center, Inc., 2003</span>'

theQuotes[26] = '&ldquo;Walking at a brisk pace (a 15-minute mile or 4 mph) burns almost as many calories as jogging for the same distance. The benefit of jogging is that it takes less time to cover the same distance and it benefits the bones; however, it may be too strenuous for some.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">National Women&rsquo;s Health Resource Center, Inc., 2003</span>'

theQuotes[27] = '&ldquo;It takes about 12 weeks after starting an exercise program to see measurable changes in your body. However, before 12 weeks, you will notice an increase in your strength and endurance.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">National Women&rsquo;s Health Resource Center, Inc., 2003</span>'

theQuotes[28] = '&ldquo;90% of adults can prevent weight gain by increasing daily physical activity by just 2,000 steps and eating 100 fewer calories.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">Hill JO, Wyatt H, et al.  Science, vol 299: February 7, 2003</span>'

theQuotes[29] = '&ldquo;Walking 1 to 1.5 hours a week can reduce the risk of coronary artery disease by 51%.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">Journal of the American Medical Association<br>(Note: This came from a 2001 study at Brigham and Women&rsquo;s Hospital in Boston, published by JAMA, will source them rather than a book. Also, the group showing the 51% reduced risk exercised 1 to 1.5 hours; the researchers didn&rsquo;t show a risk reduction for those walking 1 hour.)</span>'

theQuotes[30] = '&ldquo;Brisk walking for 30 minutes a day can reduce risk of stroke, bad cholesterol (LDL) levels and high blood pressure.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">American Heart Association 2006</span>'

theQuotes[31] = '&ldquo;Diabetes care accounts for 12% of the $645 billion in federal health care spending, or one of every eight federal health care dollars.&rdquo;<br><br><span class="footnote_grey">USA Today</span>'

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