Putting the ZEST Back in Britain

Putting the ZEST
Back in Britain
www.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

UK Economy 2013
Predicted growth 0.6%?

UK: Ranked 3rd out of 27
for longest hours worked
in Europe per week
Source: ONS

Average hours worked per week
Source: ONS
Austria 43.7
Greece 43.7
UK 42.7 (3rd)

BUT, are we more productive?
NO!

Productivity Index Per Hour
Source: ONS, Eurostat
Netherlands 136.5
Belgium 134.7
France 132.7
Germany 123.7
Denmark 119.2
Sweden 115.5
UK 107.2 (12th)

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

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

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

Where did it all go wrong?
1 in 4 of us are now obese
Source: British Heart Foundation

Less than 30%
of men and women eat their
5 portions of fruit and veg a day

Diagnosed cases of diabetes
Have reached record highs

And could potentially bankrupt
the NHS in one generation!
R.I.P.
Source: Diabetes UK

Every LB we are overweight
Source: Diabetes UK
We increase our risk
of Diabetes by
4%

34% of us
Skip breakfast
Source: Kraft

Men are worse than women
Source: Great British Sleep Survey
They increase their risk
of diabetes by
21%!www.zestlifestyle.com/zestgb

Only 20%
of us do enough exercise
to be healthy

UK: 3rd laziest country in Europe
Source: The Lancet July 2012
Malta
Serbia
United Kingdom3rd
2nd
1st

Humans are designed to walk
4 – 5 miles a day
(10,000 steps)

40% of cancers
are lifestyle related
Source: Cancer Research UK

52% of us
have problems with sleep

We’re getting
45 minutes less
sleep than 25 years ago
Source: The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working – Tony Schwartz

47% of us
have problems with energy

72% of us
have problems with focusing
on ONE thing at a time

75% of us
are dehydrated
we don’t drink enough water!

Distractions can cost us
up to 20 minutes
of our time

+ + + + +
+ + +
Working more than 10 hours a day
increases your risk of
heart disease
+
Source: European heart Journal
By 60%!

Only 49% of us
Source: All Party Parliamentary Group report – Giving Britain a Break
Take their full entitlement
of annual leave

Many surviving on
Source: All Party Parliamentary Group report – Giving Britain a Break
just 2 weeks!

YOUR ECONOMY
NEEDS YOU!

If we do nothing
UK
Otherleading
Europeancountries
EmergingMarkets

THE FORMULA
+
=
HEALTHY:
PEOPLE
PERFORMANCE
PROFITS
ENERGY PRODUCTIVITY

The 6 things
You need to know…

SLEEP

DIET

EXERCISE

SWITCH OFF

FOCUS

RESILIENCE

Together we can put the
GREAT
back in Britain
and the
UNITED
back in Kingdom

and the
ZEST
back into British business!

We just need to make
healthier lifestyle
choices!

So that we can
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER
as individuals and as a nation!

Rachel McGuinness
The Chief Resilience Officer
www.zestlifestyle.com
@zestlifestyle Rachel McGuinness Zestlifestyle

Putting the ZEST Back in Britain

Empfohlen

Empfohlen

Weitere ähnliche Inhalte

Kürzlich hochgeladen

Kürzlich hochgeladen (20)

Empfohlen

Empfohlen (20)

Putting the ZEST Back in Britain