Knowledge @ Wharton published an article last week about a company that is avoiding rising health insurance premiums by creating incentives for employees to lose weight. They use a BMI of 30 as the discriminating factor between employees that pay a lower insurance premium and a higher insurance premium, and incentivize employees to make progress during ...
Peter Bregman, in To Change Effectively, Change Just One Thing on the Harvard Business Blog pointed me to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that concluded Reduced-calorie diets result in clinically meaningful weight loss regardless of which macronutrients they emphasize. When I state that I am agnostic with regard to weight loss programs, ...
Never before have you seen a man more in need of diet and exercise. Right now, I am 345 lbs, just 4 lbs shy of my top weight. Three years ago I lost 60 pounds in 6 months before petering out. I watched every calorie I put in my mouth and I did an outstanding ...