Metabolic Syndrome Found In Nearly One-Fourth Of Workers

Fire 'em first - they are too big to begin with and need to be down-sized anyway.

"The combination of health risks known as metabolic syndrome affects slightly less than a quarter of the U.S. workforce and is linked to increased absenteeism and poorer health status, reports a study in the October Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).

Analyzing health risk appraisal data on 5,512 employees of a large financial services corporation, the researchers found that 22.6 percent of the workers had metabolic syndrome. The lead author was Dr. Wayne N. Burton of the University of Illinois at Chicago."

Fat workers cost more and are less productive.

Or make them pay more for their caloric irresponsibility and the burden it places on the rest of us.