Employee 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 »

Some people just can’t get on board with the idea of eating light (or, for that matter, eating right).

Odds are, that’s because their perspective of “eating light” is skewed. They imagine bland rice cakes, undressed salads, incessant hunger pangs … in a word, deprivation.

It doesn’t have to be that way, and the odds of successfully … Continue Reading »

For information gathering, social networking, and corporate connecting, the Internet is unsurpassed.

It seems this indispensable tool of modern society can do pretty much anything … including, research says, help people lose weight.

OK, so maybe it’s not plausible for your employees to simply point and click their way to weight loss. But online tools such … Continue Reading »

Aah, the weekend. Time to relax, indulge, stay up late and sleep later … or maybe not.

Sure, it’s nice (and necessary) to have a break from the daily grind. It gives people time to catch up on life outside the office, to engage in family time and leisure activities, as well as take care of … Continue Reading »

Working at a desk can be a real pain … literally.

Aside from the commonly cited complaints about carpal tunnel symptoms, cramped workspaces, and tension headaches, there’s one thing that arguably surpasses them all in its ability to derail your workers: back pain.

Some 80% of Americans will experience back pain at some point in their lives, … Continue Reading »

Headaches come in many forms and are caused by a variety of factors.

There is, however, one thing they have in common: They’re painful.

From a nagging tension headache that compromises your ability to concentrate to a no-holds-barred migraine that keeps you bedridden for the day, all headaches are, well, a headache.

In the workplace, the affliction affects … 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 »

Sometimes the simplest tricks can make the biggest difference in a health and fitness plan.

That’s certainly true when it comes to keeping track of what you eat and how much you exercise, particularly when you’re trying to lose weight.

If your employees are making a concentrated effort to drop excess pounds, they could benefit from hearing … Continue Reading »

There’s one thing everybody looks forward to right in the middle of a hard day at the office: lunch.

For some, that means a quick bite at the desk while dashing off a few e-mails or completing other tasks. For others, a sit-down affair with coworkers at a nearby eatery; for still others, a trip through … Continue Reading »