Background
Poor nutrition is an important contributor to several serious health conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and many common cancers [1]. Estimations of the global burden of disease attributable to nutrition-related risk factors (excess body weight, low fruit and vegetable intakes, high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol levels) demonstrates that they are leading causes of loss of healthy life, causing approximately 17 million deaths and over 160 million lost years of healthy life in 2000 [1]. The economic burden is also significant with food-related ill-health estimated to cost the National Health Service (NHS) about £6 billion annually [2]. The consequences of poor diet and excess body weight impact directly on employers, with obesity
being one of the most common and costly health problems encountered at work, and many others (back pain, stress, coronary heart disease and diabetes) are causally linked to poor diet and obesity [3]. Obese people also suffer more sickness and absences from work
[4], with around 16 million lost working days attributable to obesity-related illness in the UK in 2002 [5].
BackgroundPoor nutrition is an important contributor to several serious health conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and many common cancers [1]. Estimations of the global burden of disease attributable to nutrition-related risk factors (excess body weight, low fruit and vegetable intakes, high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol levels) demonstrates that they are leading causes of loss of healthy life, causing approximately 17 million deaths and over 160 million lost years of healthy life in 2000 [1]. The economic burden is also significant with food-related ill-health estimated to cost the National Health Service (NHS) about £6 billion annually [2]. The consequences of poor diet and excess body weight impact directly on employers, with obesitybeing one of the most common and costly health problems encountered at work, and many others (back pain, stress, coronary heart disease and diabetes) are causally linked to poor diet and obesity [3]. Obese people also suffer more sickness and absences from work[4], with around 16 million lost working days attributable to obesity-related illness in the UK in 2002 [5].
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