However, the IOM said it wasn't clear there were other health benefits linked to vitamin D and warned people from consuming too much.
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"They should just have the benefits go forward linked to inflation this year, " the shadow home secretary said.
Executives had been enjoying pay and benefits "not linked to success or performance", he complained.
That is because these benefits are already linked to the CPI rate of inflation from the previous September.
Until now, benefits have been linked to prices, which have risen more slowly.
As noted by The State of Corporate Citizenship in the United States 2009, The Hitachi Foundation and Boston College, a good reputation is increasingly linked to bottom line benefits such as improved sales, license to operate, employee morale and productivity, and retention of top talent.
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The study also noted that while dark chocolate had been linked to benefits for the heart in the past, milk chocolate was the preferred option in Sweden and in the study.
The cost of paying such benefits, which are partly linked to inflation and offer payouts to surviving spouses, is simply too high now that many retirees are surviving into their 80s.
Rather, the findings suggest that the health benefits of chocolate may be linked to how many times in a given week chocolate is eaten rather than the total amount consumed in that week, says the study's lead researcher, Beatrice Golomb, an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.
So, too, have workers at United Airlines: a bankruptcy judge recently ruled that the firm could hand its pension plan over to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, a government-linked pension insurer that pays only partial benefits to high-earners.
This evidence and the findings of public-goods experiments led the anthropologists to conclude that acceptance and rejection were strongly linked to feelings of fairness and reciprocity in addition to material benefits.
They've also been linked to brain function and mental health benefits such as lowered rates of depression and dementia.
And government debt is rising due to overgenerous civil-service pay and benefits (including index-linked pay rises twice a year).
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