Workplace Health promotion and Mediterranean diet: a case series.
Carlo Scebba, Sara Nevoloso, Corrado Colaprico
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Case in brief
In a workplace health-promotion study at a university hospital in Rome, two workers received an integrated pathway involving occupational health assessment and personalized dietary counseling. A 65-year-old woman with overweight, abdominal obesity, impaired fasting glucose, and low Mediterranean-diet adherence had lower weight and waist circumference at three months, normalized blood glucose, and improved dietary and physical activity habits. A 61-year-old man with hypercholesterolemia and impaired fasting glucose also had lower weight and waist circumference, with normalization of altered metabolic parameters. Both shifted toward a Mediterranean dietary pattern and showed overall lifestyle improvement.
Diagnostic / clinical pearl
Workplace health surveillance paired with personalized nutritional counseling can identify cardiometabolic risk and support measurable lifestyle, anthropometric, and metabolic improvements in individual workers.
Why it matters
The cases illustrate the workplace as a potential setting for integrating occupational health assessment and nutrition support in chronic disease prevention.