Is Your Work Environment Helping or Hindering Your Health and Fitness Goals?

We spend 40+ hours per week at work so imagine the positive effect a health conscious workplace would have on us! In the US, businesses

arejumping on the band wagon of health and fitness, recognising that health care costs their country 15% of its entire output (GDP). Surely prevention is better (and cheaper) than cure. Some of the initiatives companies are doing include;

• Lifestyle coaches
• Seminars
• Health fairs
• Onsite classes
• Weight loss programs
• Sporting events
• Web resources
• Incentives for healthier lifestyles

Some of the biggest challenges in setting up these initiatives are money and cultural differences, but on the whole these programs are welcomed into workplaces. Cost shouldn’t be an issue considering a high risk 45- 54 year old man costs a company $5813 compared to less than half that amount ($2081) for a low risk man of the same age. This doesn’t even include productivity loss or time off work.

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