Obesity linked to lower employment and reduced work performance in European review

Obesity linked to lower employment and reduced work performance in European review

A review of 34 European studies has found broad evidence that obesity is associated with lower employment, more sickness absence and impaired work performance. Separate OECD modelling estimates that overweight and related conditions may leave average GDP across its member countries 3.3% lower over the period from 2020 to 2050 than it would otherwise have been. However, both findings describe population-level patterns. They do not show that a per…