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Cutting calories is the key to weight loss. Studies show keeping a daily journal of foods, moods, and activity doubles weight loss and prompts good exercise and eating habits.

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You are probably always looking for ways to perk up your workers and help them stay awake and alert. Try zeitgebers. Zeitgebers, is a German word for the cues that trigger our bodies to fall sleep or to stay awake. You can harness some of these cues to “trick” the body and mind into … Continue Reading »

Want to jump-start wellness efforts in your workplace and bring employees together at the same time? It might be easier than you think to get employees on track to achieving better health and fitness with a little mentoring magic!
Pair employees who are trying to reach healthy goals with those who already have reached them. For … Continue Reading »

What can helping your employees get more sleep do for you? Well-rested employees are safer, more productive, more alert and focused. But more than 60% of adults have sleep troubles a few nights a week, according to the National Sleep Foundation. And shiftworkers may be even more sleep deprived. Chances are, one of your employees … Continue Reading »

Shift work can be hard on a body. Night shift workers have a higher risk of heart disease, obesity, and cancer. Higher rates of miscarriage, pre-term birth and low birth-weight babies have been noted in women night-shift workers.
Messing with ingrained circadian rhythms can disrupt insulin production and other hormones that are important to weight control. … Continue Reading »

In an article for CNN.com this week, a spokesperson for the nonprofit organization National Business Group on Health said that while sometimes a bit fuzzy, evidence is accumulating that wellness programs are saving employers money. More and more employers are turning to wellness programs as a way to cut health care costs and finding that … Continue Reading »

The weekend is almost here. That means, hopefully, a chance for an afternoon nap one of the two days. The weekend nap is a long-standing tradition at my house as is a conscious effort to get the recommended 7-9 hours of sleep a night.
Forty percent of Americans sleep less than the recommended amount. Chronic, inadequate … Continue Reading »

When you run a shiftwork operation, you need a schedule that maximizes productivity for you, the employer, without burning out your employees. Follow these recommendations from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health on shiftwork and schedules.
There are many different types of shiftwork schedules, from oil rig workers who spend weeks on the job … Continue Reading »

Target the topics most important to your organization by displaying our posters throughout your workplace. No matter what the subject…health and wellness, safety, productivity or shift work, no matter what the location…in hallways, lunchrooms, … Continue Reading »

The massive job losses and recent downsizing across multiple market sectors has been called corporate anorexia (the unemployment rate has recently surpassed that seen in the 80′s when the term was coined). Not a pretty picture, but the U.S. and world economy has produced an epidemic in overly thin corporations due to layoffs and … Continue Reading »