If being addicted to heroin, Marlboros or Grey Goose can be a factor in your contribution to your health care costs, then I kinda can't see why being addicted to Yodels should be exempt.

If this is true, then I should be able to sue the company for some form of poor health entrapment for stocking the break room with soda and pre-packaged, fatty snacks.

Pocket Ninja: If this is true, then I should be able to sue the company for some form of poor health entrapment for stocking the break room with soda and pre-packaged, fatty snacks.

And are they liable for giving me a workload that requires 60-70-hour weeks so the only time I can get to the gym is 5AM?

Well, perhaps if they let their employees actually work reasonable hours so they'd have time to get to the gym and eat healthy meals, instead of grabbing fast food as they drive home late at night, they wouldn't have as much a problem. Seriously, if corporations are going to charge extra for being fat, they should give discounts to those who join a gym and go on a regular basis (at my YMCA, my ID card is scanned every time I enter, at least proving I was there).

A lot of the problem is that we work in jobs that require little physical activity and, due to time constraints, that make it a challenge to eat healthy. If companies want to their employees to be leaner, they need to admit they are part of the fat problem and take steps to alleviate the problem, whether that is creating in-house gyms & cutting work loads to let employees exercise, or simply arranging with nearby gyms to give employee discounts.

Another problem is that people think they're eating healthy, but really aren't. How many calories are in that "healthy" soup or salad you buy? Unless you take the time to make your lunch in the morning, you're going to eat what is available in stores near your office. The problem with that is you're never exactly sure what you're eating. For example, I make a tuna salad sandwich at home, I know what ingredients I'm putting in. At the store, I don't

In my office, there are only a few really, heavy people, though there are quite a lot of chunky folks, including me. Fortunately, even though our hours can be intense, there is a gym directly across the street from our office that we have discounts to. Some employees go there during their lunch hour to de-stress and burn off a few calories. We're also a telecommuting company, allowing me to take my commute time (1 hour) the 2x a week I work at home and head to the gym to help me keep somewhat in shape. The weight gains really began once our office moved out of midtown Manhattan, where it was easy to find healthier food and exercise via walks during lunch, to Newark, where dining opportunities are few and walking can be hazardous to your health.

Hey, anything to keep the broads in the steno pool from showing up in the summer with those matronly upper arms flapping around.

/what?

cheesburgers?

Although I think this is taking it a bit far, I have to say, the employer has every right to do this if they so choose.

The employee also has every right to tell the employer to go fark themselves and quit.

The moment you picked up that needle, you should have your health insurance revoked.It's a persons choice to do that to themselves.

but breakfast, lunch, and dinner aren't a choice. you can't not eat. and who's to say what is good for you and what isn't. One study will say coffee is bad for you, two years later another study says it is good for you. the same with almost every other food. Dairy is bad, then dairy is good. bread and grains are good, then they are bad. do companies really want to start regulating what their employees eat?

You know, we were joking about the fat taxes when you came for the smokers with all this bullshiat.

Next up - employers to start charging their dumber employees more for insurance because they're more likely to get hurt.

As an insurance broker, with the countries largest insurance brokerage firm, I am getting a kick out of these replies.

Actually, I am.

Weight is a serious factor. And although people do work long hours, it is not the majority of the country. Most people work 40-50, and they have sedentary jobs, eat processed foods, and sit on their large bottoms all day.

We have a generation who grew up on kool aid and pringles, whose parents from the the ME generations did not instill good eating habits or excercise into them.

My mother grew up on a farm, played sports, and would not allow me to have soft drinks, other than the occasional sprite, sometimes chips, but kept my diet balanced and healthy. I am 37, still 5'4 145 lbs.

Weight lifting is not going to hurt you, unless you are into serious competition and your bmi changes, but then it still doesnt matter. Unless creatine, health shakes and juice, are crapping out your liver.

Only extreme sports can get you rated. Mountain climbing, sky diving, etc. Most things they do not care about. But as for life insurance is concerned, if you are cave diving and base jumping, be prepared to pay. You have to disclose all these things.

Life insurance generally tests all these factors, so the closet drunk is fount out through liver enzymes. Closet smoker through nicotine in urine.

And you can always make time for the gym. I do 2o mins a day on a stationary bike, when I cannot hit the weights or cardio.

Any insurance questions hit me up here.

I love fatties at work because they help keep me thin. Who hasn't been tempted by the delicious packages of fat and sugar in the vending machines? All it takes to steer me away is watching some land whale stand there and contemplate the next thing they want to shove down their throat.

damageddude: Well, perhaps if they let their employees actually work reasonable hours so they'd have time to get to the gym and eat healthy meals, instead of grabbing fast food as they drive home late at night, they wouldn't have as much a problem.

This.

Or, they could do like what my job does: you get 1 hour in the middle of the day to do whatever the hell you want. Lunch? Gym? Naptime? Doesn't matter.

It also helps that where I work enforces a strict 40-hour work week. They actually discourage going over 40.

Ha-ha!!