Health Behaviour Response: Obesity, Diet, and Employee Productivity

This assignment is a health behavior response to a colleague's post concerning obesity and unhealthy diet plans. The response critiques the original post's structure and statistics, particularly regarding the drivers of obesity, citing CDC data that emphasizes fast food consumption among adults aged 20-39. It suggests that in addition to downstream, upstream, and midstream interventions, employers should implement comprehensive lifestyle changes for employees, including smoking restrictions, reduced alcohol consumption, and the promotion of standing workstations. The response also advocates for weekly yoga classes and the use of wearable devices to enhance physical fitness awareness, ultimately aiming to reduce medical insurance costs and increase productivity. Desklib offers a wealth of resources for students, including solved assignments and past papers, to aid in their academic pursuits.

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In the post, colleague has mainly focused on obesity and unhealthy diet plan. The
main motion of the written piece of report is how unhealthy diet is increasing the risk of
developing obesity. The report also focuses on how obesity-related disability claims is
increasing the cost to company while decreasing the productivity. The overall structure of the
report is extremely disorganized with inappropriate placement of the obesity statistics. The
writer highlighted that decrease in the level of fresh fruits and vegetables are the main driving
force behind the developing of obesity. However, according to the reports published by the
Centre of Disease Development (CDC) (2018), the main driving force behind the
development of obesity among the US population is increase the consumption of fast food
between the age of group of 20 to 39. The consumption of fast food among this age group is
44.9%.
Apart from the downstream and the upstream interventions and midstream
interventions, the company or the employer must also take effective initiative in overall
lifestyle revamp of the employees. This will be guided restriction of smoking within the
office premises or reduction of smoking during the office hours, restricting the flow of
alcohol in the annual office party or other dignitary meetings and promotion of standing
workstation in order to ensure physical activity (Van Nuys et al., 2014). The employers must
also arrange for weekly yoga class or promote the use of the wearable devises to increase the
awareness about the physical fitness level. In this way the cost to company arising out of
medical insurance and be decreased along with increase in the level of productivity (Van
Nuys et al., 2014).

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References
Centre of Disease Development and Prevention (CDC). (2018). Fast Food Consumption
Among Adults in the United States, 2013–2016. Access date: 26th of December 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db322.htm
Van Nuys, K., Globe, D., Ng-Mak, D., Cheung, H., Sullivan, J., & Goldman, D. (2014). The
association between employee obesity and employer costs: evidence from a panel of
US employers. American journal of health promotion, 28(5), 277-285.