Putting the ZEST Back in Britain

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Is the health of our economy and the health of our nation linked? I want to inspire businesses to help their workforces adopt healthier lifestyles so that as a nation we can perform better in the global market place. Let's put the Zest Back in Britain and British Business.

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Putting the ZESTBack in Britain

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UK Economy 2013

Predicted growth 0.6%?

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UK: Ranked 3rd out of 27for longest hours worked

in Europe per week

Source: ONSwww.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

Average hours worked per week

Source: ONS

Austria 43.7Greece 43.7UK 42.7 (3rd)

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BUT, are we more productive?

NO!

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Productivity Index Per Hour

Source: ONS, Eurostat

Netherlands 136.5Belgium 134.7France 132.7Germany 123.7Denmark 119.2Sweden 115.5UK 107.2 (12th)

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In 2010, this report predicted that the UK would be slower to come out recession than some of its European counterparts

Source: The Work Foundationwww.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

Why?“The UK’s labour productivity still lags some way behind many other leading European Countries”

Source: The Work Foundationwww.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

Why?“The British Workforce is NOT healthy enough to drive the improvements in productivity that the UK needs”

Source: The Work Foundationwww.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

Where did it all go wrong?

1 in 4 of us are now obese

Source: British Heart Foundationwww.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

Less than 30% of men and women eat their

5 portions of fruit and veg a day

Source: British Heart Foundationwww.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

Diagnosed cases of diabetesHave reached record highs

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And could potentially bankruptthe NHS in one generation!

R.I.P. Source: Diabetes UKwww.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

Every LB we are overweight

Source: Diabetes UK

We increase our riskof Diabetes by

4% www.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

34% of usSkip breakfast

Source: Kraftwww.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

Men are worse than women

Source: Great British Sleep Survey

They increase their riskof diabetes by

21%!www.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

Only 20% of us do enough exercise

to be healthy

Source: British Heart Foundationwww.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

UK: 3rd laziest country in Europe

Source: The Lancet July 2012

MaltaSerbia

United Kingdom3rd

2nd

1st

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Humans are designed to walk4 – 5 miles a day

(10,000 steps)

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40% of cancersare lifestyle related

Source: Cancer Research UKwww.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

52% of ushave problems with sleep

Source: Great British Sleep Surveywww.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

We’re getting45 minutes less

sleep than 25 years ago

Source: The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working – Tony Schwartzwww.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

47% of ushave problems with energy

Source: Great British Sleep Surveywww.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

72% of ushave problems with focusing

on ONE thing at a time

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75% of usare dehydrated

we don’t drink enough water!

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Distractions can cost usup to 20 minutes

of our time

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Working more than 10 hours a dayincreases your risk of

heart disease

+Source: European heart Journal

By 60%!

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Only 49% of us

Source: All Party Parliamentary Group report – Giving Britain a Break

Take their full entitlement

of annual leavewww.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

Many surviving on

Source: All Party Parliamentary Group report – Giving Britain a Break

just 2 weeks!

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YOUR ECONOMY

NEEDS YOU!www.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

If we do nothing

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THE FORMULA

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=HEALTHY:PEOPLEPERFORMANCEPROFITS

ENERGY PRODUCTIVITY

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The 6 thingsYou need to

know…

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SLEEP

1www.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

DIET

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EXERCISE

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SWITCH OFF

4www.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

FOCUS

5www.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

RESILIENCE

6www.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

Together we can put the GREAT

back in Britainand theUNITED

back in Kingdom

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and theZEST

back into British business!

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We just need to make

healthier lifestyle choices!

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So that we canLIVE LONG AND

PROSPERas individuals and as a

nation!

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Rachel McGuinnessThe Chief Resilience Officer

www.zestlifestyle.com@zestlifestyle Rachel McGuinness Zestlifestyle

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