Corporate Health

Take care of your heart, and your heart will take care of you.

That’s advice any corporate wellness advisor can get behind. After all, heart health is a key factor in overall health, and a strongly pumping heart keeps your employees in prime physical and mental condition.

With heart disease ranked as the number one killer of … Continue Reading »

Your workers’ time is precious. With most of their waking hours spent on the job, so-called free time is invaluable, elusive, and, for many, hard to set aside for something like fitness.

The much-lauded work-life balance that is so vital to employees’ well-roundedness is often focused on dividing time between job responsibilities and those outside the … Continue Reading »

Preventing disease starts with promoting awareness.

Heart disease, type 2 diabetes, even cancer … understanding the risk factors and what can be done to decrease them greatly improves the odds of avoiding these diseases entirely or at least lessening their severity and improving one’s long-term outlook.

Particularly in the case of cancer, early detection is key. The … Continue Reading »

The numbers don’t lie: America is getting fatter.

As it stands, approximately one-third of Americans are obese. The even scarier part? If we continue on this path, that statistic will rise to one-half by the year 2030.

This prediction comes from a new report spotlighted online in an obesity-focused edition of The Lancet, and it paints a … Continue Reading »

Holding down a full-time job while balancing family, friends, and social obligations isn’t easy for anyone.

Add a chronic physical problem to the mix and you can see how difficult it can be to get it all done to the best of your ability.

For those who have health problems that limit their abilities, sap their energy, … Continue Reading »

Selling health topics to a motley assortment of fairly sedentary people is no mean feat.

But it’s one you take on every day because you understand the importance of workplace health and wellness, and how having employees in tip-top physical and mental condition will keep your business that way, too.

More and more corporations are realizing that … Continue Reading »

September may be a couple of weeks away, but it’s not too soon to give your employees a jumpstart on National Cholesterol Education month.

When it comes to pinpointing and addressing serious health issues, sooner is always better, after all, and cholesterol is something that deserves as much attention as possible.

Why? Because, according to … Continue Reading »

Stress. In small doses, it’s not necessarily a bad thing.

It can provide just the amount of motivation you need to accomplish what needs doing: laundry, yard work, taxes, and the like.

But when stress becomes more than just a motivator, it can do a lot more harm than good.

Without proper coping mechanisms, an overload of stress … Continue Reading »

Life is full of choices, and many of the seemingly simple ones can have a significant impact on your health.

From choosing when and if to go to the doctor for a checkup to deciding what to make for dinner to debating whether or not to skip the daily workout in favor of some couch time, … Continue Reading »

For people who have never given much thought to the way they eat, sleep, work, and live, the very concept of adopting a healthy lifestyle can seem overwhelming.

An overabundance of advice, some of it contradictory, confuses things further. People who have to sort through the vast amount of information out there regarding what to eat, … Continue Reading »