With certain health conditions, individuals are faced with certain limitations. Quite often, these limitations affect the work world being days lost from work that are a cost to both the employees and employers. This results in a lost of wages and most importantly a lost of work not completed (Colditz, 1992). Findings found that obese employees miss more days from work due to short-term absences, long-term disability, and even premature death (Colditz, 1992). When days are lost or task are not completed, this puts the business at risk to not thrive smoothly and successful which may affect the business on the day, causing a loss in money made. This also affects the worker(s) because now money is not being brought into the home, adding to the already growing family debt. In worse cases such as a death, an obstacle is faced by the family that may be more challenging than …show more content…
Obesity is not just overeating and lack of exercise, it is also cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers, health care, loss of work. It is possible premature death and leaving your family with debt that may seem impossible to overcome. If not living healthy and expanding their life expectancy is not enough motivation for the obese population, the economic burden that they leave on themselves, their family, and even America should push them to want to lose weight and be healthy. Until then, the economic burden due to obesity is likely to grow in astonishing