Businesses help workers to lose weight
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070630/ap_on_bi_ge/workplace_weight_loss"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070628/capt.abe51e63ed6941abafa813415cde41a1.workplace_weight_loss_cx101.jpg?x=96&y=130&sig=U3x4CWRlfWvEwRZmCmEyWw--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="Republican Presidential hopeful and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee answers questions during an interview in the AP Washington bureau in an April 23, 2007, file photo. Huckabee, who created a wellness program for state employees in Arkansas after losing more 100 lbs., was in Chicago, Thursday, June 28, 2007, to speak to health and wellness leaders at the start of a two-day conference on workplace weight management. Companies are enlisting the help of a growing niche industry of wellness advisers who provide everything from corporate gyms, to medical risk screenings at work and healthy grocery lists that can be downloaded on an iPod. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)" border="0" /></a>AP - A burgeoning industry of wellness advisers, counselors and consultants is booming as corporate America tries to increase productivity and control insurance costs by helping its employees get healthy and shed pounds.</p><br clear="all"/>

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