Issue 7
Column
Why Include Self Defense Training Into Corporate Wellness Programs
Proactive, forward-thinking companies do what is necessary to ensure that employees are mentally, emotionally and physically healthy. These companies
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Health Hazards of Chronic Stress and Ways to Beat it
Research has linked chronic stress with increased risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, and other potentially serious conditions. Chronic stress decreases
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I’m too Busy to Eat Healthfully
All too often in my practice, I’m confronted with the words, “I’m too busy to eat healthy.” It’s easy during the busy corporate day to just grab and go, or just to snack and go.
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Seven Stress Management Tips For Corporate Type A personalities that Love The Pressure
Forty year old Hugh, father of two, loved the fast pace, driven corporate world. It put a zing in his step, gave him the best reason to get up and go each morning,
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Lessons Learned from France Telecom: Stress in the Workplace
Recently CBS evening news aired a piece on France Telecom, Europe's largest broadband Internet company. It wasn’t the massive layoffs that got my attention.
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Asthma and Wellness
Asthma (AZ-ma) is a chronic (long-term) lung disease that inflames and narrows the airways. Asthma causes recurring periods of wheezing (a whistling sound when you breathe), chest tightness
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Keeping Employees Engaged in Wellness Throughout the Year
Whether you are just launching a workplace wellness program or you are managing one that is already well under way, it is important to stay focused on keeping employees
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H1N1 Flu Activity Remains High in the U.S. – Protect Yourself and Your Employees
On average more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu-related complications, and about 36,000 people die from flu-related causes each year in the U.S.
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Embracing the Revolution: Using Social Networking to Power Your Employee Wellness Program
For a myriad of reasons, it’s now crystal clear that social networking has gone mainstream. The 35+ age group is the fastest growing demographic online and Facebook now has 350 million
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Dr. Gene Migliaccio: An Interview with the Director of Federal Occupational Health (FOH)
Established by Congress in 1946, FOH is the largest provider of occupational health and wellness services to the Federal government, serving more than 360 Federal
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What is Life Coaching?
Life Coaching is a practice with the aim of helping clients determine and achieve personal goals using multiple methods that will help them with the process
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Wellness Programs- Success Depends on a Custom, Holistic Design Supported On and Off Work
The pioneering employers that introduced the first wellness programs hoped that by offering their employees new wellness benefits and changing a few policies
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An Employee’s View to Corporate Wellness
Peter Drucker once wrote “every business has two functions, and only two functions. They are marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results.
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An Interview with Dena Pflieger, Global Health Promotion Leader at Dow Chemical Company
Corporate Wellness Magazine recently had privilege sit down on a recent trip to Washington D.C. and spend a few minutes with Dena Pflieger who is Global Health
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Employee Benefits: An Investment in Human Capital
Providing health benefits to employees is expensive, but poor employee health carries a high price, too. Increasingly, employers are moving away from viewing health benefits
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Give a Little, Get a Little: Optimal Recruitment Efforts for Wellness Initiatives
We know that effective wellness programming produces happier, healthier employees. If your employee base suddenly, magically, lost weight, stopped smoking,
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Healthcare Reform is Dead. Let’s Get Back to Business.
Healthcare Reform is dead. When Senator Brown was elected in Massachusetts many in the insurance industry breathed a sigh of relief, some broke out champagne and celebrated.
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Mind Strengths for Attorneys and Legal Practioners
Over the past few months, we have noticed some key indicators emerging that support our view that stress is manifesting itself in new ways as a result of the recession.
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Health IQ: Achieving Improved Employee Health by Increasing Health Awareness
Corporate wellness programs are adopted by companies to improve the well-being of employees by helping to identify health risk factors, provide resources
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