Study: Fat workers cost employers more

So, what's new about this? Nothing.

"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."

As usual, the obesity experts are using reports like this to line their own pockets:

"Obesity experts said they hope the study will convince employers to invest in programs to help fight obesity."

Despite the fact that their programs do not work.

"Study co-author Dr. Truls Ostbye said the findings should encourage employers to sponsor fitness programs.

''There are many promising programs,'' Ostbye said. ''We'd like to see more research about what is truly effective'"...

"But there isn't enough good information about employer-sponsored programs that work, said John Cawley, an expert in the economics of obesity at Cornell University. Employers don't know whether paying for nutrition counseling, obesity surgery or anti-obesity drugs through health insurance makes economic sense, he said."

Hey, Ostbye, wake up! What is "truly effective" is fewer Calories in than out.

In fact, it is the only thing that is effective. Nothing else matters.

Especially the advice of these dangerous experts.