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Good news, employers. Scientists have come up with a urine test that can determine how healthy a person's eating habits are:
A urine test that can reveal how healthy your meals are has been developed by UK scientists. They think it could be used to improve nutritional advice or in weight loss because people are notoriously bad at recording their own eating habits.
The test, detailed in the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology [open, DOI: 10.1016/S2213-8587(16)30419-3] [DX], detects chemicals made as food is processed by the body. The research team believe it could be widely available within two years. The urine samples are analysed to determine the structure of the chemicals floating around in it using a technique called a proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. This gives clues to both recent meals and long term dietary habits.
Combine this with mandatory illicit drug testing and the proper healthy living incentives/disincentives structure, and you can optimize the performance of your employees!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday January 17 2017, @01:47PM
It's pretty much a zero-sum game.
They have it at my employer. They're mostly interested in treatable chronic conditions that aren't being treated.
There is some "kick the can" thinking in that lowering your blood pressure 5 points means you'll just die of a heart attack 5 years later, which doesn't help you any, well, I guess you get five years extra which is kinda nice, but the real purpose is they hope you'll have a new employer and new insurer in 5 years or will have retired or downsized into completely being un-insured at that time. Any company that doesn't cooperate in playing kick the can will tend to accumulate more claims once most companies play kick the can, so thats how almost every company started playing kick the can at the same time.
They really don't care if its acute or untreatable because that's not part of kick the can game, so they don't bother with diagnoses.