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Our contemporary lifestyle, including overindulging in what and how much we eat, sitting behind a desk for long periods, watching TV instead of exercising, continues to take a toll on our health.
Reports suggest that employers generally are not helping situation and hence contribute to the trend:
- Some employers demonstrate little enthusiasm to invest a Rial today on wellness programmes and preventive care which could save hundreds of Rials tomorrow in healthcare fees or staff absenteeism.
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This in part due to the misplaced belief that the employee will have left the business a long time before serious diseases like cancer and heart disease develop.
Oman, and for that matter all of Gulf States, are witnessing a dramatic and worrying rise in obesity and diet-related diseases. In the past three decades, the percentage of those with obesity in the world has doubled and Oman has not been immune.
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