Workplace is key to solve UK’s obesity crisis, says study

Employers can help to solve the UK’s obesity crisis by achieving improvements in the health and wellbeing of their staff, Unilever and think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) have suggested, following a year-long workplace health pilot.



The latest statistics show that 61% of adults in England are overweight – 24% of whom are obese. In 2009 Unilever launched a workplace health pilot, Fit Business, to help more than 1,600 employees in factor... (546 more words)

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