Obesity, an alarmingly increasing phenomenon in the U.S., is a major factor in a host of chronic – and costly – conditions from diabetes to heart disease that are correspondingly increasing. Workplace strategies that help promote weight loss can significantly lower risk factors, injuries, absenteeism and, ultimately, healthcare costs.
Obesity in America: Workplace Solutions
 This publication offers comprehensive research about how the growing obesity epidemic is affecting the workplace and contributing to higher healthcare costs. The research also reviews successful workplace strategies that promote weight loss and address the underlying factors of obesity such as diet, exercise, environment and stress. Following these strategies can help to lower obesity-related risk factors, injuries, absenteeism and, ultimately, to lower healthcare costs.
The Challenge of Obesity: Checklist for Workplace Strategies
 This publication offers important steps to initiating a wellness program that addresses obesity as a way to control obesity-related healthcare costs. It is important that weight management strategies are included within a context of a comprehensive wellness program that encourages all employees to be healthy. Whether your investment is offering healthier vending machine snacks, fitness opportunities, seminars or a fully-equipped gym, the key to enlisting and maximizing participation in weight loss efforts rests on specific elements. Following this checklist can help reduce the effect of obesity and obesity-related conditions on healthcare costs.
Obesity in America PowerPoint Presentation
 This PowerPoint presentation with featured speaker, Janine Kyrillos, M.D., a Philadelphia-based authority on the management of obesity, reviews the latest research on how the growing obesity epidemic is affecting the workplace including its contribution to higher medical claims. She presents the trends in workplace strategies that help employees successfully lose weight, and create a healthier workforce for a healthier bottom line.
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