Nutritionists believe that the difference in output is simply down to the differences in diet. Whilst the average French person will sit down to a three or four course lunch comprising of fresh vegetables, fruit, fish and or meat; their English counterparts will eat a sandwich, pizza, burger or some other form of junk food.

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On the face of it, you would think that the French, considering the amount of food they eat would be fat. Quite the contrary, it is because they are eating a health well balanced diet that they remain far slimmer than the UK. Couple this with the fact that they are more likely to walk to work, walk to a restaurant and walk home and you have the makings of a healthier nation.

OBESE EMPLOYEES

Walk into any French company and you are likely to be greeted by a slim, elegantly dressed member of staff who is smiling and bright at anytime of the day. Walk into a UK business and you are likely to be faced with someone who is overweight, wearing cheap, ill fitting clothes and who looks like they lost their last three fights.

This pattern is likely to run through the whole company, right through middle management up to boardroom level. In the UK, you can expect the opposite, with staff all carrying too much weight including the middle management and it is only when you reach the boardroom that you can expect to find employees who take any care over their appearance. Again there are always exceptions to these rules and where senior managers and directors are overweight, you are likely to find endemic obesity problems amongst the lower order staff and inefficiency.

French people who are overweight tend to find it more difficult to get jobs or gain promotion. Political correctness in France is something that you will find hard to find as far as obesity is concerned. Fat French people are considered lazy, greedy and stupid; and whilst this would be considered discrimination in the UK, in France it is accepted as a fact.

WORK DISCRIMINATION

Most potential French employers would not consider employing someone who was severely overweight and not be scared to tell the interviewee his reasons. Someone who does not take a pride in the appearance and care about their health is simply not going to take pride and care in their job.

In the UK, being overweight has become the norm. Political correctness and fears about accusations of constructive dismissal and discrimination against overweight employees are tying the hands of industry. As a result, business suffers whilst the UK balloons and feeds its face with ever increasing amounts of food.

There is a growing problem with obesity in the work place.