Michael Grant wishes policymakers could come together to helpemployers and benefits advisors spend more time ongetting Americans healthy, and less on the finer points of countingfull-time equivalent employees.
Grant, the head of the employee benefits divisionat Crystal & Company, a largefamily-owned insurance broker based in New York, has lost 31 poundsto show he is serious about the firm's wellness program. The firmhas brought in Rocco DiSpirito, the celebrity chef who wrote TheNegative Calorie Diet book, as an advisor on eating better. Granthas also been eating better.
Many, many more American workers have to eat better, exercise,take the time to go to their doctor's for their checkups, and, ingeneral, do what it takes to follow sound medical advice aboutconditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure,Grant said earlier this week in an interview in his office inManhattan, just off of Wall Street.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
