"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unveiled a free Web site application last week called LEANWorks designed to motivate employers to start healthy living programs and weight loss measures for their employees."Size discrimination activists."
Yet, a keystone to the LEANWorks program, the "obesity cost calculator" for companies to estimate how much their obese and overweight employees cost them each year, has started a debate between some public health experts and size discrimination activists."
The debate, of course, has frequent stops and starts as time-outs are taken for feedings.
Still...
Fat employees are more expensive employees.
"In 2000, the total cost (direct and indirect) attributable to obesity was estimated to be $117 billion, and between 1987 and 2001, diseases associated with obesity accounted for 27 percent of the increases in medical costs. Medical expenses for obese employees are estimated to be between 29 percent and 117 percent greater than medical expenses for employees with a healthy weight."If fatsos want to be hired, clearly it should be at a reduced pay.
Since they cost more, pay them less.
That evens the compensation playing field and removes the discrimination against the fit.
The real problem here is not admitting the greater cost of the fat, it is the advocacy of a doomed to fail approach for employers to take.
"The CDC assessed a number of businesses to identify promising worksite programs that incorporate nutrition and physical activity using SWAT methodology. Small and medium worksite programs that met both business and public health goals were identified and selected based on six criteria-innovativeness, data quality, effectiveness, sustainability, public health relevance, and feasibility.
The following are some examples of successful worksite obesity prevention programs."
Here is a poster child for a case study that worked!
See what I mean?
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