Employee Benefit News July 3, 2024
Deanna Cuadra

Diet plays a huge role in disease prevention and management, potentially influencing how often an employee heads to the doctor and how much they pay for it. Yet nutrition support isn’t a top-line item in many benefit plans — this healthcare company wants to change that.

According to research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, people who improved the health of their diet by even 25% could reduce their risk of dying from cancer by up to 18%, reduce the risk of dying from heart disease by up to 13%, and reduce risk of respiratory disease by up to 46%. But it’s not easy to build a healthy diet employees would actually want to stick to,...

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