The health and wellbeing of employees is a focus for many organisations, with programmes in place to ensure staff get enough exercise and information on nutrition. However, in some jobs, all the health programmes in the world will not help.
Angus Kennedy has been forced to quit his dream job as a chocolate taster after piling on the pounds and putting his health in danger.
Kennedy, former editor of trade journal Kennedy’s Confection, was dubbed Willy Wonka after landing a £30,000-a-year sweet-tasting role in 2010, in which he was asked by manufacturers to trial their products and then write about these in his publication.
However, after eating up to two pounds of sweets a day for two years, his weight has risen from 11-and-a-half stone to 13-and-a-half stone, and he has been told by doctors that his cholesterol levels are now becoming “dangerously high” and is at risk of having a heart attack.
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He has now given up his role as chocolate taster and his position of editor on the journal to concentrate on losing weight and his writing career.
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I can’t believe that this gentleman has given up his what would seem by most people to be a “Dream Job” because of the weight issues.
There are so many support therapies that he could have used just to mention a few: hypnotherapy to help control his weight (yes there would have been exercise involved) Personal Trainer to help with an exercise plan to counteract the chocolate tasting perhaps! Nutritional Health for helping provide the right balance of food and to help with cholesterol levels.
Did he really have to give his job up because of chocolate?
can i have his job?