Obesity Costs U.S. Employers
$73 Billion Annually
- Two thirds of Americans are obese or overweight today. As their health goes, so goes that of their employers.
- Health costs alone are an estimated $147 billion annually according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
- Private employers are hit with an estimated $45 billion a year in medical expenditures and work loss.
- For one employer in the Midwest, Advocate Health Care, obesity cost nearly $6 million in lost productivity last year alone. That’s six times as much as the costs attributed to smoking.
- Adult obesity rates have now jumped in 28 states, with 38 states declaring adult obesity rates above 25%.
- Obesity is a gateway condition because it can lead to heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension, adding further costs to employers.
Your Company Doesn’t Have to Sit Back and
Watch Obesity Eat Away at Your Profits
Many companies are offering proactive wellness programs to their employees. And Lock It In can help your company do the same.
Lock It In is more than a weight loss program. Our metabolic specialists know that the best way to encourage the health of your employees is to optimize their metabolism. When the metabolism functions correctly, the body stays healthy.
In addition to helping your employees lose weight, our metabolic specialists can take a sluggish metabolism and return it to the highly functioning metabolism they once knew. In doing so, your company can avoid massive health care costs associated with obesity. Plus, an employee with a highly functioning metabolism is able to work more effectively and efficiently. Our program has helped employees at some of the world’s biggest companies.
Our program for business can help you encourage the health of your employees. We began this program after IBM reported company savings of $190 million in health care costs between 2005 and 2007. All they did was help employees take responsibility for adopting healthier behaviors.
Lock It In can help your company accomplish similarly amazing results.
To assist your company in establishing an obesity-prevention program, our metabolic and weight loss specialist can meet with your leadership, present our program to your employees in a lunch-and-learn format or a larger seminar-type presentation, and then work individually with any employee wanting to lose weight and get their energy and life back.
The Centers for Disease Control recommends companies establish this type of program for their employees. And Peter Hotz, a group vice president at Walgreen’s, said: “Employers realized several years ago that to slow [their health care] cost increases, they had to do a lot more than just treat people when they’re sick.”
To get your company started today, contact Lock It In and Real Health Medical CEO Dave Stephenson at 678-990-5401. Or fill in the contact information below.
Source: https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2010/07/obesity2010report.pdf
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