Workplace intervention leads to weight loss.

• Position: High Blood Sugar - Brief article

For people who have high blood sugar, preventing diabetes could amount to just another day at the office, maintains a study in Preventing Chronic Disease, in which employees enrolled in a workplace intervention program as a group lost more weight, showed greater reductions in fasting blood sugar, and ate less fat than employees who received only written health guidelines for diabetes prevention.

The employees had been identified through a workplace screening as having prediabetes--higher than normal blood-sugar levels--a condition that affects more than one-third of U.S. adults, and increases risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

On average, the workplace intervention group members lost about 5.5% of their body weight and kept it off for three months, compared to less than half a percent of weight lost by the control group. The intervention group also lowered fasting glucose levels by more than double that of the control group.

"Adults spend a large portion of their time at work...