Employees Encouraged to Eat Healthy Meals Through Programs Aimed at Reducing Health Care Costs
Employers provide 160 million Americans with health care coverage, and the cost of delivering that insurance has increased 31% over the last five years, representing the fastest-growing corporate expense. As reported in The New York Times, a novel approach to containing health care costs has employers steering their employees towards healthy foods. Under this approach, consultants set up programs by which meals made with natural, whole ingredients are sold in corporate cafeterias and in the prepared-foods section of local supermarkets. Employees who join the program are urged to eat whole-food-based meals exclusively for at least three months; a variety of data is then collected from the participants in order to gauge their progress.
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