Go figure, fat people cost more to the bottom line
Overweight workers cost their bosses more in injury claims than their lean colleagues, suggests a study that found the heaviest employees had twice the rate of workers’ compensation claims as their fit co-workers.
Like Jason’s last post, I haven’t given this much thought, but I can tell you that obesity is a serious problem in this country and with a broken health care system someone is going to take the burden of all those citizens that continue to make unhealthy choices.
Duke University researchers also found that the fattest workers had 13 times more lost workdays due to work-related injuries, and their medical claims for those injuries were seven times higher than their fit co-workers.
Overweight workers were more likely to have claims involving injuries to the back, wrist, arm, neck, shoulder, hip, knee and foot than other employees.
It falls on the individual to keep themselves healthy of course, that being said though I don’t see the government subsidizing fruits and vegetables like they do other products. With the way they treat global warming and the way corporations dictate government policy I just don’t understand whatsover why on earth diabetes and child hood obesity are skyrocketing….