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Healthy Eaters Are More Energetic Workers

By Liz Wolgemuth

Posted: June 30, 2008

One more reason for employers to start snooping in your brown bag: A new study from ComPsych, a provider of employee assistance programs, found a significant correlation between balanced nutrition and at-work energy and productivity.

The study found that half of all employees with balanced diets reported having high energy, compared with only 5 percent of employees with unbalanced diets.

Also from the ComPsych survey:

—Of employees with healthy diets, 73 percent reported having high levels of productivity, compared to 24 percent of employees with poor dietary habits.

—Fifty-one percent of ideal weight employees had high morale, while less than half that amount—25 percent—of very overweight employees had high morale levels.

—Fifty-seven percent of healthy weight employees reported high levels of productivity, while only 27 percent of very overweight employees reported being highly productive.

Are you supposed to be helping with our careers? Sheeze.

Dan of IA @ Jul 01, 2008 21:18:36 PM

You are supposed to be helping people succeed at their calling.Geez!

Dan of IA @ Jul 01, 2008 21:08:39 PM

If I was a fatty I'd take some offense at what you are insinuating in this article. You know, most of my bosses are somewhat chronically overweight and if I was to mention to them that they perhaps would be more productive if they ate less I would no doubt be called a few bad names to say the least. I might even get one of them greeting cards and a snicker.

Dan of IA @ Jul 01, 2008 20:59:23 PM

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