Weight Control How Wellness Programs May Reduce Workers Compensation Costs

Weight Control:  Manageable Ideas Problems associated with overweight workers often cause injuries to be prolonged and workers' comp claims to be more expense. As part of your workers' comp management program, consider integrating a wellness program. Here are a few easy-to-integrate ideas from Dr. Sandy Leffingwell.

 

1. A book titled   The Way To Eat: A Six-Step Path to Lifelong Weight Control,  By David Katz, M.D. and Maura Gonzales (see footnote 1), a nutritionist, is excellent. The authors are not into fad diets, but have put together a collection of simple ways of changing what you eat to achieve a healthier diet. The authors are aware weird diets are not sustainable and heroic diets while taking weight off, don't keep it off. They know a diet leaving you hungry will not last. They understand people with weight problems are rarely the gluttons most thin people imagine them to be. They explain how tastes are formed (indeed, how the tendency to like the same things is an innate survival instinct) and suggest ways in which tastes can change to adapt to a healthier life style. One example is whole milk vs. skim milk. Many people accustomed to whole milk find skim (workersxzcompxzkit) milk watery, blue and generally disgusting. The authors' standard proposition is: "Grit your teeth for one month and use nothing but skim milk. At the end of the month, drink exactly one glass of whole milk, and see how you like it." Almost without exception, people find it unpleasantly thick and greasy, preferring the skim milk they have newly grown accustomed to.