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Is Your Workplace Phat or Fat

Is your workplace making you fat

Ceridian LifeWorks, a leading provider of employee assistance programs (http://301url.com/d71) solutions, asked employees across the country to weigh in on how their workplaces affect their waistlines. Responses included:

-    Sweet pushers! My co- workers are always bringing cookies, brownies and donuts to work.

-    Surrounded by snackers. It's a desk job with no exercise and my co-workers have poor eating habits.

-    I eat what I make. I keep eating the cheese we make at the factory, snacking is really easy.

-    Stuck between a treadmill and a Donut. Co-workers bring treats, such as donuts, on the other hand there is a fitness center to promote good health.

-    An employee at rest tends to stay at rest. Being that I sit all day, it is very hard for me to go out and exercise.

-    Bottomless cup of soda. I could lose more weight if it wasn't for free soda at work.

-    A time to eat and a time to sow. I'm a self-employed farmer and I have unusual eating patterns in the spring and the fall.

"Obesity costs employers billions of dollars every year," said Ceridian LifeWorks senior vice president Zachary Meyer. "Although controlling bodyweight ultimately requires employees to take personal responsibility for their daily decisions related to things like nutrition and fitness, employers have the power to encourage healthy workplace choices. Employers can realize significant weight management (

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