<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b782572f-f829-4ba0-9671-fdfc4dfdf83e/CD3EA854-A262-419E-BA6C-E93FF74474AB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/File/photo//080625/photos_hl_afp/96fea790b458bd543a1ff5bb20c30494//s:/afp/20080625/hl_afp/lifestylegermanyhealthpoliticsobesity" href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/File/photo//080625/photos_hl_afp/96fea790b458bd543a1ff5bb20c30494//s:/afp/20080625/hl_afp/lifestylegermanyhealthpoliticsobesity" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/File/photo//080625/photos_hl_afp/96fea790b458bd543a1ff5bb20c30494//s:/afp/20080625/hl_afp/lifestylegermanyhealthpoliticsobesity"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/588F3F00-3616-4394-9029-F40EE55E4FB6" alt="The German government on Wednesday unveiled a bundle of measures ..." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080625/hl_afp/lifestylegermanyhealthpoliticsobesity" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080625/hl_afp/lifestylegermanyhealthpoliticsobesity" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080625/hl_afp/lifestylegermanyhealthpoliticsobesity">The German government on Wednesday unveiled a bundle of measures and incentives to whip millions of overweight adults and children into shape.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080625/hl_afp/lifestylegermanyhealthpoliticsobesity"><P> The 30-million-euro (47-million-dollar) programme running for the next two years is intended to improve the well-being, productivity and <SPAN id="lw_1214413240_0" class="yshortcuts">quality of life</SPAN> of Germans, the health ministry said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080625/hl_afp/lifestylegermanyhealthpoliticsobesity"> About 37 million adults and two million children and teenagers are overweight, according to official figures. 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