HEALTHY HABITS FOR EMPLOYEES

Adopting healthy habits at work can help employees keep their weight in check

A new study has suggested that some simple changes to promote healthy habits at work can help to prevent employees from gaining weight.

However, these types of environmental interventions aren't likely to lead to weight loss even when combined with an individual weight-management programme, according to the study by researchers at University of Georgia and Emory University.
The researchers report on the impact of environmental interventions at several Dow Chemical Company worksites. They found that simple, low-cost interventions -- for example, encouraging workers to take the stairs and making healthy options available in vending machines -- helped to avoid employee weight gain.
They study also evaluated the effects of a voluntary, low-intensity individual weight-management programme. The programme was popular, with about 60 per cent of eligible workers participating.
"However, employees who participated in the individually focused intervention were no more successful at losing weight than those who were only exposed to the environmental interventions," said researchers.

"Low-cost environmental interventions provide an opportunity for worksites to encourage weight maintenance and control in the general employee population," concluded researchers conclude.
The study has been published in the March Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Source: ANI
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