Corporate Wellness

Your mother always told you to stop fidgeting.

Now, research shows that you should probably be doing more of it. Pacing, shuffling, swaying, bouncing … it all has an effect on cardiorespiratory fitness, according to researchers.

Incidental physical activity, or IPA, includes things like walking to the printer at work or down the hall to speak to … Continue Reading »

What sends your blood pressure through the roof? Work stress? Lines at the DMV? In-laws?

Or is the culprit your affinity for the salt shaker and alcoholic beverages, those extra pounds you’re carrying around, or a general lack of physical activity?

Beyond that, high blood pressure could be blamed on genetics, age, and family history.

So, bottom line, … Continue Reading »

Here’s yet another reason to encourage your workers to get a good night’s sleep: It could help them control their weight.

New research shows that daytime sleepiness may play a role in the brain’s inhibitory function when presented with images of tempting, fattening foods. In the workplace, this suggests that a sleepy worker may be less … Continue Reading »

In the quest to build a healthy staff, it’s easy to focus so much on certain aspects that you inadvertently neglect others.

If obesity and obesity-related medical problems are prevalent among your employees, for example, you probably spend a great deal of time and effort educating them about weight-loss measures and promoting diet and exercise.

Physical health … Continue Reading »

Good health in a gulp … that’s what some people believe they’re getting when they down their daily dietary supplement.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that more than half of Americans take some kind of supplement, primarily a multivitamin. And while it’s important to give your body all the vitamins and minerals it … Continue Reading »

Multitasking is the name of the game in today’s fast-paced world, but odds are it’s not doing you, your employees, or any one of those tasks any good.

Trying to juggle too much at work, at home, or both breeds stress, decreases quality of output, and opens the door to careless errors and potentially costly mistakes. … Continue Reading »

There are only so many ways you can make the point that smoking is bad for you.

And yet this disease-causing, foul-smelling, age-accelerating habit is still a major health concern not only for smokers themselves, but also for the people who employ them.

Whereas smokers face the consequences of their addiction in primarily physical ways, their … Continue Reading »

You wouldn’t drive to work on an empty tank of gas; why should it be any different when it comes to fueling up your body before a workout?

It’s a simple concept: energy in, energy out. If there’s not enough fuel for your body to use while you’re putting it through its paces, you’re going to … Continue Reading »

Days aren’t getting any longer, and your employees’ daily to-do lists aren’t getting any shorter.

As important as it is for your staff members to exercise whenever and however they can, it’s also important to recognize the challenges posed by time constraints on today’s often hectic schedules. Your workers are juggling full-time jobs plus the needs … Continue Reading »

So you’ve pulled together the health fair to end all health fairs, and now you’d like to sit back and take a well-earned break. Sorry, not quite yet.

Now that the groundwork is laid, it’s time to do what any corporate wellness expert does best: Promote, promote, promote.

The truth is, it doesn’t matter how well organized … Continue Reading »