Overweight in the Workplace (HBO: The Weight of the Nation)
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- To win, we have to lose. The four-part HBO Documentary Films series, The Weight of The Nation explores the obesity epidemic in America. For more information on The Weight of the Nation, visit hbo.com/theweightofthenation.
Connect with The Weight of the Nation on Facebook: / theweightofthenation
Talking about it on Twitter? Follow @WeightoftheNtn and use #weightofthenation. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Everytime I'm seeing and hearing the logo I expect Game of Thrones to start.
I still expect Sopranos to start.
@@melissahollowell7255 Same
This program shows that people who are overweight aren't necessarily careless. They care. While they are in the process of changing, they should not be ridiculed or teased ... at school or at work.
These lazy slobs need to take personal responsibility for their appalling health conditions.
@@helmethead72 LOL
ITS NOT food WHAT THEY EATING ITS DRUGS only small % of food the rest is addictive ,PRESERVATIVE, SUGAR, SUGAR, sugar everywhere, nobody blame the food industries..FOOD INDUSTRIES ARE KILLING HUMANITY SPIRIT WITH THEIR SUGAR. NOBODY BLAME ON food industries what they do to make US eat more, when i comment like that peoples think that im FAT, and im not FAT .
@@helmethead72 nah but you dont know if these people want to change or not, thats why we really shouldnt judge, unless someone gives us a sygnal that they dont want to then give them some advice? Whats with people thinking that judging everything and everyone will help? Especially strangers like bruh
For the longest time I have been suffering from high blood pressure and obesity but recently I made a drastic change to my diet.
I no longer eat foods with high fructose corn syrup or the like in it, no soda, no energy drinks, and I make all of my food at home from scratch. I have also been walking roughly 20 to 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week (soon to be every day as I needed to grow my stamina) and I've been working out 3 days a week.
Since I started that change, fast food isn't appetizing anymore. Soda is too sweet and I feel sick after drinking it. I no longer take in caffeine so my BP is down and I've been sleeping better as well. Just removing sugar and caffeine has changed my life for the better in many ways, just doing things like that might even save someone's life.
Once people realize how addicting it is and treat it like any other addiction, it's so easy to change. People also don't realize how much salt is in soda, fast food and junk food.
Chaos Clareon. That’s so awesome!
Good job. Keep it up. I find that only following people on Insta keeps me in line. I think i eat different than you, but i still have a goal in mind. Having pics of raw fruit n veg in my face all day, helps. Plus, i also feel accountsble for posting my papaya!
@@rawveganfruitarian7290 careful with following instagram "fitness gurus", a lot of that is false advertising also.
I feel the same way after giving a meat based diet a try; I can't go back to eating bread and drinking soda. Once you overcome it you realize how bad those foods made you feel and it only takes a couple weeks to lose those cravings.
This Health Care girl is adorable. She really really cares for these people. I love seeing her interact with them. This company should really be proud of the steps they are taking for their workers.
It's one thing for your company to be concerned about your health, it's another for them to have access to all your health data. All this negative health data can be used against an employee regardless of their work performance. Are company executives subject to the same company "concern," that is corporate scrutiny of their health? I doubt it.
Thank you for the data supporting your conclusions about the ramifications of an obese workforce! "Healthy At Any Size" is a friggin joke. It's like saying "smoking doesn't kill."
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The stupid thing is that when employers provide employee luncheons as a reward or incentive, they will often serve carbohydrate HEAVY foods like pasta, bread, a cookie and soda.
In my opinion, employees would be better off if they had two slices of pizza and unlimited salad, no cookies and no soda provided. Or just cater some Jimmy John's or Subway with heavy veggies on the side as an option to add.
I rarely eat more than a few bites of the lasagna or other pasta my employer serves because it makes me feel tired, too full and too sick to work well for the rest of the day!
If carb heavy foods make you feel like that, feel proud that your body is programmed to run off of healthy foods instead of anything served at typical restaurants today.
Jimmy John's or Subway is not exactly a much healthier option, still a lot of carbs and sodium. The problem is that food shouldn't be used as a reward ever.
Employee luncheons are not an everyday thing. Obese employees have unhealthy eating habits and that fat has been cultivated for years. One employee luncheon a month wont do that even if they serve the must unhealthy foods. If a person eats healthy 5 days a week walks 30 to 40 mins 5 days a week and eats out on the weekends they wouldnt be overweight. What you do in your own time is the problem.
L A I know what you're saying buuuuttt..... Employers today make employees pay an additional fee for smoking, yet they don't do any advocating for choices that go into the vending machines, they don't stop providing donuts weekly, and at my work like I mentioned, they have meals that are pasta-heavy 2 to 4 times a month,where I work.
Having SOME carbs are tasty, GOOD and can be healthy - _in moderation _ - . My complaint is when employers don't model and implement this in the food choices they make available to employees, when it would be relatively easy to do so AND it would be well received by most employees, in my opinion and experience.
Dawn In my opinion and experience, having a sub sandwich with a substantial serving of meat and veggies is much more balanced than a catered pasta dish that barely has any meat or cheese, that is just 95% noodles with some residual pasta sauce and a spot of meat and mozzarella here and there, served with breadsticks and barely a handful of lettuce as salad on the side.
This is a problem in my workplace and other places I have worked. In my opinion. When this is served I feel better off if I don't eat it.
And when my employer is so concerned everyday about production and meeting numbers, I don't understand why they don't have more thought behind what the effects of the food they serve as an incentive does to their employees ability to perform optimally.
So... my college is having us analyze whether or not it's ethical of companies to be so involved with their employee's lives, especially if their priority is to boost efficiency and lower costs, not their employee's health. My take on this is: does it really matter? Either way, there is attention being called on unhealthy employees, and there are incentives pushing them to be healthier. I think whatever the reason it is for the wellness programs, the side effect of healthier employees makes them all a positive addition to the workplace.
A company that invests in its employees will have a loyal, happy workforce. If the company is inefficient, it will not survive, and all of the employees will be out of a job, which is bad for everyone. Pursuing efficiency by improving the quality of life of the employees is the best possible scenario.
Amy Zhang who
Except that recent studies have shown wellness programs offer almost no benefit to the employee - and they give up a degree of privacy when they allow the company access to their private medical information.
Tell your college to shuv it up their arses!
Allow me to play devil's advocate to your premise... Let's say that after testing, the doctor sees that you love to eat gremiche (totally made up) and it is high in calories. The company may start feeling it has the right to tell you to stop eating gremiche, and check up on you to make sure you are not eating it. And, possibly, over time, fire you because you didn't do what the company felt was good for your health. Whether the company was right or wrong in the data about gremiche, the camel's nose is now in the tent.
Another big problem in the construction world is alcoholism. The world of construction is unfortunately full of men with addiction problems, alcoholism being the most prevalent. Beer is FULL of calories and carbs, and if you're drinking five, six, seven or more a night, you are guaranteed to have at least a paunch, if not be totally overweight, not to mention the food we love to eat with beer at the sports bar (chicken wings, fries, etc etc)
The biggest thing employers could do to combat obesity is work their employees shorter hours so they have more time to go home and cook for themselves.
thing about work is that it is stressful. it leads you to soothing behaviors
Intermittent fasting. It will shed pounds , reverse type 2 diabetes, improve blood pressure and so much more. There is so much information out there that is worth serious consideration. My husband and I have employed intermittent fasting and in 6.5 months my husband lost 50 lbs and I have lost 40lbs. It was not from restricting what we ate. We lost weight by keeping our window of eating to a very short period each day. Neither of us feel deprived in the slightest. We only refrain from eating throughout the day.
When do you eat? I need to eat in the morning and in the evenings social eating is quite important, so I'm wondering where to cut the eating to...
@@Paulinemoke , I eat one hour a day in the evening. I started intermittent fasting by skipping breakfast. Then I progressed to having lunch around 2 or 3 in the afternoon after several months. When I got used to that, I then moved to just one meal a day. The key is to keep the hours of eating and consuming liquid calories to the smallest window that is tolerable. It gets easier with time.
Same here. My eating window is for a hour. 7-8pm. I'm doing OMAD. At first it's hard. You'll be hungry. But as the days go on, you don't get hungry. Your body adapts to it.
@@lauralarrabee7870 , I don't think the waiting helps. Exercise depletes glycogen from your liver so you can get into ketosis quicker.
Look at Dr. Berg's videos here on CZcams.
He has a lot of information on starting keto and intermittent fasting.
I eat all my meals within an 8 hour window and have found this very effective and am achieving my goals.
Good luck.
I don’t even need to watch this. Just go to the DMV in San Diego. Everyone waddles! Can’t even walk!
@49jubilee I lived there for years and actually surfed too :) but as you get away from the beach and it's like anywhere America plus the Mexican/American population is overweight.....
@@FloridaDave_ it has nothing to do with mexicans
@@memphisgrizzlies3398 Ok you're right...
Great video! The best I've ever seen about the subject of obesity. Not one person on this show made an excuse or complained of fat shaming or body positivity or complaints about the fast food industry or food deserts or past childhood issues, or government not doing enough, or food industry lobbyists. It was a company that saw a problem and acted on it and people that took responsibility and took the help offered. I'm sure not bv everyone of the employees did, but it looks like mostly all participated and a fee had great success!
Because employee benefits and longterm investments like that are the first to go when cutting spending.
I was just telling a friend that since I've cut back sugar and salt, I can't handle the amount of it in drinks and take out. I ate a breakfast sandwich this morning. I feel a little sick from the salty sausage that was on it. I drink some mineral water and it settled my stomach. I can't handle that stuff anymore. I threw the rest in the garbage.
Not everything is related to weight. Here in America people work themselves to death. No vacation, no days off for years. That what makes you sick. Stress and working all the time. I been working for 18 years full time me and my husband and did not get a vacation in those 18 years. I raised 9 kids at the same time. That makes you more sick than the food you eat.
That contributes to it a lot. I honestly believe the system is rigged agaisnt the working class. If you go to a mid to low income city you will find more fastfood places than the suburbs, not to mention the supermarkets designed to tempt people. Imagine u walk into a supermarket after working a 10 hour shift and the first thing you see is a box chocolate cake or a ready to go pizza, most people will grab that and just go bc they are so tired.
Yes, people underestimate what stress does to us physically.
We get six weeks of holidays per year plus the necessary sick days.
If these American companies cared about their employees health, they would give them a decent amount of holidays each year so they can have a healthy work/life balance. They are just doing this so they can get more productivity for less cost. It’s pretty insidious how they are interfering with people’s personal lives. I have always had the impression that US companies feel like they own their people like serfs. It seems very easy to fire them if they don’t toe the line, for example.
Paul Lee agreed. Well said.
Paul Lee yes! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😂
@@gonegirl4690 Speaking as a person that has lived in both the US and the UK I can tell you why the US is against a nanny state and the UK is for one.
In the US when the government gets involved things get more time consuming, more expensive, less well run, and the number of hoops one has to go through to get anything done is exhausting.
In the UK when the private sector takes over for the government things become more time consuming, more expensive, less well run, and the number of hoops... you get the idea.
It is a fact that the US gov't is terrible at doing most things on time and on budget. That is why the private sector is so strong and why people don't want gov't interference.
But in the UK the opposite is true. If you remove the gov't the prices skyrocket and what actually gets done plummets in numbers.
On top of that because the NHS covers the cost of surgeries you want fewer people with medical problems easy ways to do that is to use technology to cut down on personal injuries at work- so for example the US has many jobs where repetitive lifting of 40+ pounds is expected - thus creating numerous health problems. In the UK any item over 20 pounds is required by law to be lifted by machine. That in itself cuts down on health problems and injuries. You can scoff at how things are done there but they are for the betterment of UK society on the whole.
I’m a Nurse Practitioner👩🏻⚕️ and I would love to have a job like hers. I enjoy teaching patients about little changes that can make enormous difference. ❤️
It’s amazing to me but other countries give four weeks minimum vacation when you start in a company here in America you barely get one week sometimes when you start so to me if someone takes a week off because they don’t feel well I feel like the company caused that. American companies need to re-look at how much personal time they are paying their employees so that they can get well rested for the year I don’t think it’s all about obesity it’s also about over working Americans. And if you were depressed from working so much you probably go home and just eat so to me it’s a continuous vicious cycle. Companies need to be accountable as well.
Yes. I think one reason people eat more than they should, and the wrong things, is that they are so stressed out by their jobs. Grab something comforting and fast to eat, and you'll feel a little better, for the moment.
Always someone else's fault right
Lora, STUPID. The companies aren't forcing junk down their mouths. I am in a special position as a screen actor. We are constantly surrounded by some of the best food possible and some of the worst. Buffets eveywhere. I can choose to eat the bad stuff or the good stuff. So don't sit here and tell me it is the company's fault. The ugly fat fucks on the set eat all the crap processed food that is offered constantly. At home, I cook and don't keep processed food in the house
@@gonegirl4690 Owning a company is a privilege not a right. But workers need time off which is what she really talking about.
hmm... I wonder the very large bank I work for removed the small gym we had available for employees. Yet, really encourage worker to work OT as much as possible. In addition, much more often than not they rewards employees with food....pizza, candy etc..... They remove emergency day care that encouraged families to stay.
Rene T 😢💔😥😢💔😥😢💔😥😢💔😥😢💔😥
That happens at all companies rewards with crappy food. They want you healthy and then they feed you crap
A lot of the success is due to the encouragement of the company nurse. It's like wanting to do your best for your favorite teacher.
Back in the day when you could tell the truth about obesity 😬
Agreed!
The health practitioner on this programme is outstanding - she has saved the health and lives of so many people..she is a God send 🙏🙏 thank you ma’am for some incredible results 🙏
Six years later and how are those obesity levels now?
Definitely worse...
They really are shocked?
*What the hell do you expect when you ask these men to overwork, overextend themselves for 60 hrs. per week? You aren't gonna have workers who are concerned about hitting the gym 4 nights a week or preparing lean foods in the kitchen. They are tired and so will eat high calorie, low nutritional food.*
Aallison K obesity is no more a “choice” then depression. Do people “do” things to both cause and worsen the “condition” same as depression yes. This still doesn’t make it a choice. No one chooses to be sick, hurt, obese, etc but many end up that way just the same.
I’m not trying to pick a fight here but looking down upon people with issues is certainly not the way to bring them up out of their “condition” whatever it may be.
At the end of the day no matter what is going on a person has to want something better for themself. I do applaud companies that are interested in making life better for their employees, however most miss the mark completely.
I have worked construction in the mud with the men. They are hard working compassionate people that care deeply about their job and families. Unfortunately for them they spend so much energy on everyone else they save little for themselves.
So for years on a daily basis I watched as they indulged on gas station junk food just for that moment of pleasure as it was all the peace they found in a day.
Aallison K I am not disagreeing that many are lazy. I am simply saying the root cause of obesity is not “laziness” or “poor choices “.
To tell an overweight persons to just “eat healthy” is about as bad as telling an alcoholic to just put down the bottle.
There are underlying reasons, reasons not excuses, as to why people crave and indulge all the while fully aware what they are doing will only exacerbate the issue.
I didn’t say we need to condone or “like” what they are doing but reminding them how disgusting they are and berating them for being as they are serves no purpose to better the situation for anyone.
Great case study
yes but i read Japan even stricter
I am japanese.what is this about?
it’s in the mind of a person, to decide what he or she decide about their health to make it worse or better to change, its self discipline, determination and consistency which not for everyone to be able to do it.
Bed great to have a follow up with these guys!
Because of health costs, and loss of productivity due to lost days off and absenteeism most companies refuse to even hire fat and obese people! These people need to take personal responsibility for their actions. No excuses!! It is your problem, do something about it! Don’t blame anyone else! You can do it!!!!
I have to question the actual savings to the company as a result of these wellness programs, as I work for a major corporation who instituted a very aggressive wellness program a few years back, but as the economy worsened they gradually stripped it away until all that remains is a paid day off to get an annual physical. If the savings were so great, why would they cut the program when the economy went bad?
+Scott Staggs: Also in this program they stated that it took a few years to show the effect. When money runs out, people run to short term effective remedies, neglecting what it will do in the long run. Besides that, maybe there was no-one actually presenting the facts in the company. Also: you can't really blame employers for hiring more healthy, normal sized people, now can you? Once they have figured out what it costs to hire an obese person (in average that is), they will naturally go for the slimmer person. For it is true that most obese people just seem to get less done in a day, than people with a normal weight. That is apart from the extra lost sick days. Is that a photo of you? How well are you doing on losing your extra weight?
Scott interesting
scary
& now in 2018 it is __________________
ITS NOT food WHAT THEY EATING ITS DRUGS only small % of food the rest is addictive ,PRESERVATIVE, SUGAR, SUGAR, sugar everywhere, nobody blame the food industries..FOOD INDUSTRIES ARE KILLING HUMANITY SPIRIT WITH THEIR SUGAR. NOBODY BLAME ON food industries what they do to make US eat more, when i comment like that peoples think that im FAT, and im not FAT .
You do not need three big meals a day, unless you're a lumberjack, or work in the fields. We eat like lumberjacks, then sit or lie down for 23 hours...it's a recipe for disaster. I eat one meal a day...and other very small meals. And I'm active.
Every meal, at every home and restaurant is an overloaded plate...why? You don't need it. You honestly don't. You're feeding your fat and starving your muscles. STOP
You look overweight.
Depends from age to age ,teens need many more cals , plus guys need more cals,
Deborah43 old women like you don’t need as many cals,for obvious reasons and even if u are active
It was bad enough when millions were dying early of diabetes and heart disease. But nothing is more heartbreaking than seeing corporations deprived of their profits.
Two things can be true, at the same time. And if corporations lose money, those losses are passed to the consumer.
No, the prize IS the people!❤️✨👍🏼🌿
Wow. Great statement of the problem. Would it do any good for me to suggest looking into low carb keto diets? This is how I have managed my weight and T2 diabetes for 21 years. 61 yr old male 5'4" 138 lbs a1c 5.4. Any questions?
Many health professionals warn against keto for regular people just trying to lose weight. It can be very dangerous
Well, they are a*******. Go away Vegan Troll.
My workplace does something similar and we subsidize Weight Watchers, but over the ten years I've worked there, I haven't really seen a change in body weight. In fact, I think we are getting larger.
Weight Watchers is 💩, that’s why.
@@flanagamer 1 banana is 100 calories and it's zero points according to weight watchers.
For the past two and a half months I have been going to the gym 5 days a week. I run four miles a day plus I do some resistance training exercises after my run. I do intermittent fasting everyday I only eat two meals a day lunch and dinner . I drink water all day. I don't drink sodas I don't drink juice and stay away from desserts. So far I've only lost 4 pounds of weight. Does anyone know if this is normal or is something wrong with me?
+Ask me Ask me Eat breakfast if you want to loose weight. It's the most important meal of the day. Try to eat a light dinner instead of fasting and replace that with a healthy hearty breakfast
you are not eating enough and your body goes into survival mode, storing fat to keep you going... if you keep it up you will eventually drop the weight, but also develop an eating disorder and the minute you stop this routine you'll gain it all back. So, here are some tips: eliminate all sugars and trans fat, eat breakfast (2 toasts and coffee for example), make sure that half of your plate in all your meals is composed of vegetables, eat two pieces of fruit a day, and snack something light every three to four hours (some nuts, a yougurt, a fruit). i wish you the best!
+Eliana Scuderi: That is good advice! Hope he/she is taking it. Or someone else who reads along. For if you see what people are eating and what the portion size is, you have to do remarkably much to burn that off. And indeed: skipping meals will push the body into survival mode and it is absolutely not sustainable in the long run. It might be that he/she is building some muscle power, which weighs more than fat, so he/she might lose fat, which is easily seen when measuring the waistline. In the long run that will help a bit too for muscles use more energy than fat tissue. When eating bread, pasta and rice always go for the whole grain and brown variants. I personally was helped much by leaving sugary things out and also half of all bread, pasta and rice. Instead I ate a lot more vegetables and a lot more fruits. Got my weight down real nice without feeling hungry. For as soon as a felt hungry I would go for a bean salad or something like that, which filled me up real nice, without the spike and fall in my blood sugar levels, that caused food cravings.
So what is said about intermittent fasting is completely false?? Just wondering
yeah, it's not good for your metabolism, no competent nutricionist would suggest it. The thing is, that though they might work in the short term, they're not sustainable methods, as soon as you stop you will get a bounce back effect (and probably gain a few more lbs for good measure). The body is smart, if you starve it, it will eat up its reserves to keep you alive. As soon as you start eating again it will try to make up for those lost reserves because they are your "back up". If you fast like once a year for religious reasons or smth, the body will be ok with it, but if you do it on a regular basis your gonna drive it insane, it will try to store more than it should because it doesn't know when your gonna feed it again.
Balancing your diet is a matter of eating well and eating healthy. There are no cheat codes. Veg, fruit, wholegrain, protein. And drink only water or fresh squeezed juice, no sugar added...
You can still eat icecream or cake once in a while as a treat. Eating well isn't supposed to be a chore or punishment, its a change in lifestyle. Hope things go great for you! :)
Switching to a ketogenic diet can change your life for the better , it certainly changed mine. Stronger , leaner , muscular , more energy , better sleep quality for sure. Getting rid of sugar and anything processed is a must.
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@Jack Walters I care. It was kind of him to offer.
Untrue. I can eat 3000 calories a day while sticking to a high carb low fat vegan diet, and become obese. Its not black and white, there is moderation to be required regardless.
Maria Meehan, so true
ask your doctor if you have the AD-36 virus. It's a virus that causes weight gain. Google it. Also, increase your exercise routine if you haven't already.
Maria Meehan your profile photo shows you are obese too
3000 is a lot, wtf are you smoking. I am 6 feet 2 and I need less than that to maintain my body mass, I am a bodybuilder.
I think a lot of people missed the point of your post.
Background music is nonstop.
So many people expect everybody to go.with the flow but not me.
Almost 9 years ago published and only a little over 100k views. Says at lot about America
Because wellness is a long term investment. It is easy to cut and in a criss you can also lay off unrpoductive people.
Stalin Mc Corn. That’s scary after allowing a company to be so in your business!
Is that Paul Rudd? 0:31 😁
Nothing changes until you take things into your own hands. Noone else can help you. When that truth sank in, I managed to change. Obviously all this great info does help tremendously, but you haave to do it.
Maybe healthcare in America should be more affordable.
Maybe only real food should be sold
@@amim4701 Aye, pal. Because obesity is the only cause of high blood pressure, Type 2 Diabetes, and high cholesterol.
It would be people were healthier. Making excuses is easier though.
@@angminnyc It would also be easier if people knew the difference between genuine health information and misinformation peddled by CZcamsrs who spout bullshite just to make money off the very same viewers they're scamming with dangerous ideas. Such as fruit smoothies, for example.
There is no Good Sugar and Bad Sugar. Type 2 Diabetes also comes with age and is down to the body being unable to regulate their glucose levels. So either the body doesn't produce enough insulin or the body becomes resistant to insulin.
Obesity is a Risk Factor, not cause. Risk Factors increase the odds of a T2 Diabetes diagnosis. Age is also a Risk Factor. Slurping fruit smoothies every day is a major Risk Factor. Scoffing fruit like there's no tomorrow is a major Risk Factor. Genetics is a Risk Factor.
The more Risk Factors a person has? The higher the odds go up. Plenty of average people and skinny people have T2 Diabetes.
A well-balanced diet and exercise, if possible, will lower Risk Factors that stem from excessive weight and liquid fruits. Age can't be lowered and so that Risk Factor increases with every passing birthday. Genetics can't be changed so that Risk Factor remains the same.
This was over ten years ago and the problem is only getting worse.
Great!
This was a very interesting doco. At the end of the day with the right mindset and correct eating plan it is very possible to lose weight fast. The only problem is most don't have access to the resources that allow this to happen.
+Fat Loss HQ: What do you mean? Nobody needs a program from their boss to lose weight fast and permanently. Everyone can increase their activity level and decrease their calorie intake. It's just that most are too lazy to be bothered. We like sitting down too much and we like the taste of refined sugar too much. So we stick our heads firmly in the sand and keep on eating and sitting. The idiotic thing here is, that if we cannot take care of ourselves anymore, someone else will come to feed us crap and clean our house and pay for our staggering obesity related doctor's bills. Many countries have a rather stupid system in which people are rewarded for bad behavior. So they keep doing it. Stop helping them and see how fast they can slim down when truly needed. Almost nobody was 'super morbidly obese' a century ago. And now look. How about a high tax on all things bad for you and that tax goes directly to programs to prevent obesity. That will make a difference. But probably this is never going to happen in a society, where the majority of the people are addicted to junk food. They rather keep their heads way down deep in the sand and first wake up when it is too late for them. People are so incredibly dumb.
Weight Loss Green Store Tea cures more than doctors.
Garden Joy OK so you must be perfect I’ve always wanted to meet someone like you. You mentioned a century ago No One was obese do you even remember years and years ago our great grandparents one worked one stayed home so there was always healthy options and there wasn’t these prepackaged garbage for food. Our employers give us 30 minutes to try and shovel down whatever food we can get. They want overtime they want to throw parties and feed their employees crappy food but yeah complain that employees are calling out and by the way almost all the skinny people I work with are always calling out sick so it’s not just overweight people. I grew up in a time where we didn’t have technology so you were busy but these damn phones are a problem.
Tobacco? They can test that?
Ming Song in 26 states they can test legally.
As far as I know they can only test for drugs (pot) not normal tobacco. Anyone correct me if I'm wrong. I live in NH and our motto (on the license plate) is Live Free or Die. Maybe that isn't true in all states ?
Not true in ANY State. We are all slaves. We are just fooling ourselves. Suicide up! Obesity up! Drug use up! Opiate addiction up! Taxes up! Food prices up! Working pay wage, way down! One in three Americans on food stamps. How are we free?
They work at a physical job all day and she tells em about a gym in the wellness center xD 10/10
Proves that it's all about diet
When you see those construction workers in obesity, we know that the main problem is in their dietary habit, not their lack of physical activities.
Funny, I see all these comments about vegan diets but most of the vegan people I've met are always overweight.
Companies should pay for gym memberships
00:30 discount Paul Rudd
Cute kids!😁
Aw Christ. So many dumb comments. Calories. That’s it. Figure out what your BMR is and then don’t go over. Balanced diet. Whether omnivore, herbivore or carnivore. Don’t omit an entire macro group, that’s just dumb. It’s protein, carbohydrates, fat. There is a proper ratio for good health meaning vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, fiber, protein, fat. Exercise routine. Don’t overeat. That’s literally it. Registered dietitians know this. Dont skip meals. Don’t over complicate things. Whole grains, protein in either animal or plant form, vegetables, fruit, dairy isn’t necessary, but if you like it, go for it. 2 servings a day is okay. But a serving is a serving!!! Smaller portions! You have to go into a restaurant and be ready to know when to stop since they can give large portions. And eat out less. Calories are enormous in most restaurants. Treats limited. Plan meals. Take time for it. Don’t eat in front of a screen. Mindful eating. Good luck everyone. Can’t cheat the system. Biology 101 ya’ll.
I am 5ft 10 inches tall and I am a dancer at studio west and I weigh 219 pounds. I am told by pcp that its because I am active. I eat veganitarin and vegan and I am loosing weight..
Open your mind, be honest with yourself, close your mouth and move your ass, that is all you need to do to be healthy.
I am a starving student right now. All I can afford to eat is mostly processed foods. I hate it. I think the cost of healthy food is unattainable for a lot of families out there. Cost of living is so high where I live...just trying to survive. If government subsidized food costs....it would save on medical care. Education on nutrition is a great way to improve people's lives. I love that this company hired a professional to help their employees with their health. Healthy people are productive people. No brainer. I love that they reward them with extra $$. It goes a long way to help out their families both financially and health prevention.
You can get 5 bananas for 50 cents, 2 apples for 60 cents, 12 eggs for $ 2.50, a bag of beans for $ 1.00, a cauliflower for $ 1.50, a pund of potatoes for $ 1.20 , 2 pounds of carrots for $2.50 a head of lettuces for $ 1.50, pund of rice $ 1.75 = $ 11.47 can you afford this for a week? Of course you can be healthy on a student budget. You just need to change your mind, close your mouth and move your ass, that's all.
lol bullshit, nobody has just enough money to eat a shitty diet and that's it, good food is not expensive lolol stop making shit up.
Great way to break down the sugars. One can of Pepsi has just over 10 tsp of sugars, 41g/4 =... well it equals :-( AHA posted 25 g of sugar is the max for women! That's only 6 tsp a day. Mmm ...Sounds a fitness challenge I will post on the Lose It app. Wonder is anyone will join?
I've flipped to high fat low carb because carbs are just 3 glucose molecules. I've had the most stable energy levels I've had in my life. No noon crashes nothing. It's been fucking amazing. I also realize it's not for everyone too since no way of eating fits all but we all benefit from cutting down sugar and processed carbs.
These construction workers have a very high-energy job that causes them to burn tons of calories yet 55% of them are obese. How?
Cause of the food they eat ,they eat way too much of unhealthy foods which makes all the exercise ineffective
Beer
They eat enough calories for 3 people
When I worked construction I got up to a juicy 220 at 19 years old... I have always worked out even throughout construction doing some type of resistance training 3x weekly at a bare minimum. As a construction worker you’re always enticed to eat out, multiple times too. Fuck I’d grab McDonald’s at 5 am go to the gas station after leaving my first work site around 12 pm. Snack throughout the day and grab some teriyaki dinner. You work all day so you never really have time to prep healthy food.
Coming in from 2020...8 years after this video..much has much done creating american diet
This series I have a problem with since they focus on the societal implications of obesity. They don’t talk about tangible solutions. Moreover, many obese workers are class 1 which is 30-40 pounds overweight and I don’t think that causes a lack of productivity. Correlation doesn’t equal causation.
Actually an extra 40 lbs can definitely lead to less productivity - put on a 40 lb. weighted vest and tell me you can’t feel the difference.
Great story
12 years latter 2022 and everybody is still fat. Nothing is being done!
8:10 call their wife? seriously?
We have to get beyond this mistaken conception we have in America of "individualism" or "freedom" and make a little more effort to help control people who can't control themselves. Being obese is the same as being addicted to drugs, alcohol, or gambling. It has adverse effects on health and workplace productivity. Just like you don't have the "right" to be an alcoholic if it affects your work, you shouldn't have the "right" to be obese and be a substandard employee because of it.
But also, we need improved access to healthcare, and a restructuring of food economy - fast food shouldn't be the cheapest and most ubiquitous option for most Americans. Make a Big Mac cost $15 and a can of Coke cost $6, and put that money into the healthcare system. People clearly can't do it on their own, so we need to do more than "nudging" at this point.
People addicted to drugs alcohol and gambling go into rehab voluntarily. You cannot force an adult person to do anything they don’t want to do without a court order
@@jmz1927 Judges do force people into rehab sometimes.
Bryan that is a slippery slope my friend. Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still...
Also those willing to give up freedom for security deserve and receive neither.
I think before anyone can do anything about any issue the first step would be to actually understand what is causing it. Obesity is a symptom of an underlying issue be it physical/mental/social.
There are as many opinions on how to be healthy as there are on what is healthy.
Anyone wanting to push for control measures will soon find themself within that dragnet and see the end result as unfavorable.
Attack the overweight employee, Meanwhile you have skinny homeless people that don't work at all.
Since when is NORWAY poor dude?
The dude at 11:00 is HOT! Need some men like that up here in NY
This effort is simply a proven response that people don't take care of themselves -- INSURED OR NOT. Health insurance has many ways of trying to work with it's members to get them the care that they need. Take the employer's side and factor in numbers of mental health issues, drug abuse, poor diet/obesity and how do we help these conditions in today's world? Everyone is too busy sitting on the couch, watching garbage on TV and eating garbage (thank you food delivery to your doorstep). We're teaching our children all our bad choices and habits. And consuming more processed foods, exercising less, eating animal products. It's all so completely unsustainable.
How would you solve this? Thank you to the providers of this video and the controversial thoughts it inspired.
Wow, How is this legal? Don’t know much about American labour laws, but here in Canada, no employer has any right what’s so ever to know an employees personal medical information, it’s an illegal invasion of privacy. ONLY your doctor has the right to know your medical status. You cannot bribe employees with money for those able to improve their health. I could sue my employer if they attempted or threatened to do that…..it’s none of their business. What we do outside of work hours is none of their business…employers only care about one thing and one thing only, PROFIT, NOT their employees well being. Anyone who believes otherwise is just kidding themselves…..I’m really surprised this is legal in the US. Here, you could sue your employer for violating your personal rights, for being prejudice, and defamation of character. I though US labour laws were more more stringent then ours…guess not.
A lot of these guys need to sort their diet ,if you look at their physical jobs it gives them a head start ,this literally is their gymn/ start smoking and you get more money to stop
4:55 so we fired all of them and hire skinny people
Yes we get more productivity from healthy employees,,,,almost forgot a spin off of this is healthy employees
The only times I have gained weight is when I have starved (300 cal a day) twice in my life for about 7 months each time. Once from poverty and once from illness...ONLY when I was able to eat 800 cal a day again did the weight gain STOP! But I was not able to lose what I gained from starvation.
Tbh this says it all about employers they will implement things that essentially make them 💰 money🤑🤑also fit rats sorry I mean people are more productive/ it’s a good spin
So they make you take a medical and if you fail you lose your job even if you are the best at it how is that right how can employers get away with it
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I'm curious as to how a wellness program can work with HIPAA laws.
Take away from ppl greasy foods and sugary sodas? Fat chance!
They are taking up too much space
The problem I have with this is there are people who are overweight (like myself) with no health problems whatsoever (like myself) who can walk 8 miles and work out 2 hrs a day (like I do) and who work hard while I know a lot of skinny people who can’t even climb a flight of stairs and avoid work like the plague....these generalizations are false and degrading and make you look stupid
You are right. I'm in the same boat. I'm overweight but labs are normal. I work out at least five times a week; cardio and weight training. However, I work with slim people who drink and smoke on a regular basis and always missing work. Yes we need to get our health under control. I try to get a lot of people in my life, both slim and plus, to work out with me. I actually had more of the plus size people who were more willing to work out with me than the slim folks.
then how are you out of shape?
@ did she or I say out of shape? We said overweight, which is by the medical field. I'm a curvy plus size woman and very active. My muscle to fat ratio is 51/49. I have a small waist compared to my hips. I lift on average 4-5 days a week. I also work seven days a week. So tell me where you read anything that stated out of shape?
Coming from 2019....jobs/businesses offer these "extras" as a CYA....but what they really need to do is change the workplace..not enough people, too much overtime and stress. I've attended many anti stress seminars at work, but nothing is done by management to reduce the stress...CYA with the seminars....all BS
240 pounds? That is not éven heavy!
I really don't think weight matters much in this world, not even in dating. All that I think and know really matters is your qualifications and the amount of money you have. Obesity is bad for life quality but I hardly see it stop anyone much. There are even fat actors and plus size models.
+Melisa Deyn: Might it be that you are sticking your head firmly into the sand? Weight matters so much. You will feel so much better in a more lean body with a normal BMI, than you will feel in an obese body. No-one likes it to not look that nice, no-one likes it to struggle to put socks on, for your belly is in the way. No-one likes it to feel tired and sweaty so often and not to be able to play with the (grand)kids. No-one likes it to feel crappy because of obesity related illnesses. No-one likes it to have to spend more time in doctor's offices and be poked in. No-one likes it to have a much higher risk of getting diabetis type 2. And for those who start being obese at a young age: no-one likes it to risk lose many years of life. People who are obese run a higher risk of becoming depressed. No wonder, for they miss out on a lot of good things. No-one likes to have to pay more in taxes and health insurance because there are so many costs to being obese as a nation. But there is one thing most obese people have in common: they rather have the immediate pleasure of the food they are addicted to, than the pleasure of being free from all nasty things mentioned above in the long run. People are pretty weird.
way she said obese at start
This seems really intrusive
You sound like the people of new york when the mayor tried to tax their soda. If you can't make the right choices for yourselves but want to claim you are an adult while burdening the system with your poor health, thats intrusive, intrusive on everyone else who is trying to stay healthy.
@@LA-li4yw you don't have socialized medicine so what's it to u?
Sad
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Obese clients should pay more for insurance.
It is my view that a person can do a lot more damage to their weight loss goals in the kitchen than they can possibly repair at the gymnasium. With this in mind, I feel it was irresponsible of this film to suggest that weight loss goals could be achieved through exercise alone. The key to weight loss is to create a deficit between the calories consumed and the calories burned. If you burn more calories than you consume, you will lose weight. 30 minutes on a treadmill may allow you to burn 300 cal, but 90 seconds with a snickers bar will erase that progress. This film should have focused more on the nutritional management side of weight loss instead of suggesting that time at the gym alone is sufficient to bring about weight loss. Don’t misunderstand me, I am all about fitness and exercise and going to the gym. I believe that doing cardio and weight training is essential to good health and weight loss, but it is not sufficient. People must consume fewer calories if they want to shed the excess pounds and this film simply failed to hammer that point home.
Okay. So this company should hire only single men less than forty-five years of age who also shun tobacco and drugs and other unhealthy things. Good luck, suckers.
Dont be shocked, there are many of us. Not everyone has given up in life
I'm with you brother
What does being single have to do with it.
@@AshDemonYoung probably because if you're single you most likely don't have anyone else to be accountable to, aren't likely to have or produce a bunch of kids, and can then spend all your time working for the company. That's my guess.
have to want to change ur life I did I losed 220 pound if I can do u can to
I was called Fatso by my boss for almost a year ...
Hey fatso
burymedeep 2093 what is wrong with you? What a stupid reply.
Tomg Stereos. I would have recorded him then sued his ass for having a hostile work environment!
And then what happened
Tomg Stereos fuck them. You still work there ?
Why do people need to be educated about what is right to eat? Do these people live under a rock???? The truth is, they don't want to eat good food. And they don't know how to cook, and they don't want to exercise.
There is a lot misinformation regarding good. So yes, they need education. Also, they have physically demanding jobs. Clearly, the issue here is diet. That being said, if they work physic demanding jobs and work long hours. They are probably too tired to exercise.
This is a bunch of corporate bullshit.
Read my lips; _It's. The. Food._
obvi•US we cant see your lips never mind know how to lip read. 🤨
@@TheWendable 🤣 touché Wendy... here, let me show you... 👄
obvi•US 🤣
They're physically active people and she's chiding them to get exercise.
And the cholesterol lie!
It’s not necessarily the same as exercise though. You gotta get your heart rate up. That being said, they probably also work long hours so it’s challenging to exercise. But first thing they need to fix is diet.