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!

1. Mending Broken Britain

2. UK Economy 2013
Predicted growth 0.6%?

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

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

5. BUT, are we more productive?
NO!

6. 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)

7. 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

8. Why?
“The UK’s labour productivity still
lags some way behind many
other leading
European Countries”
Source: The Work Foundation

9. Why?
“The British Workforce is NOT
healthy enough to drive the
improvements in
productivity that the
UK needs”
Source: The Work Foundation

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

11. Less than 30%
of men and women eat their
5 portions of fruit and veg a day
Source: British Heart Foundation

12. Diagnosed cases of diabetes
Have reached record highs

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

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

15. 34% of us
Skip breakfast
Source: Kraft

16. Men are worse than women
Source: Great British Sleep Survey
They increase their risk
of diabetes by
21%!

17. Only 20%
of us do enough exercise
to be healthy
Source: British Heart Foundation

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

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

20. 40% of cancers
are lifestyle related
Source: Cancer Research UK

21. 52% of us
have problems with sleep
Source: Great British Sleep Survey

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

23. 47% of us
have problems with energy
Source: Great British Sleep Survey

24. 72% of us
have problems with focusing
on ONE thing at a time

25. 75% of us
are dehydrated
we don’t drink enough water!

26. Distractions can cost us
up to 20 minutes
of our time

27. + + + + +
+ + +
Working more than 10 hours a day
increases your risk of
heart disease
+
Source: European heart Journal
By 60%!

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

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

30. YOUR ECONOMY
NEEDS YOU!

31. If we do nothing
UK
Otherleading
Europeancountries
EmergingMarkets

32. THE FORMULA
+
=
HEALTHY:
PEOPLE
PERFORMANCE
PROFITS
ENERGY PRODUCTIVITY

33. The 6 things
You need to know…

34. SLEEP

35. DIET

36. EXERCISE

37. SWITCH OFF

38. FOCUS

39. RESILIENCE

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

41. We just need to make
healthier lifestyle
choices!

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

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