Food and occupational health

In the article published on October 16, 2017 on the page Quironprevencion the data disclosed by International Labor Organization (ILO) unveiled the data of a truly revealing international study: inadequate nutrition results in companies around the world at 20% productivity losses. In the poorest countries, diseases due to general or specific malnutrition (eg iron) carry very high economic costs. Serve as a mere example that iron deficiency is associated with states of weakness, fatigue and lack of coordination, and causes significant productivity losses. And often, in these countries a model is adopted in which workers, employers and governments are trapped in a vicious circle of poor food and health, low productivity and poverty. On the other hand, and not least, in the richest countries, obesity, vascular diseases, cancer and diabetes, and the risk factors that lead to them, are largely a consequence of unbalanced diets, in that undoubtedly impact our habits and practices at work.