Issue 8

Worksite Wellness

Article130

Escape Financial Stress

Jacquelyn Ferguson, M.S

How long will our collective financial instability last? Do you have enough money to get through it? Stress!

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Article125

Understanding Stress and Mental Fitness: Techniques for Building Resilience

Jaymie Meyer

Corporate Wellness programs primarily focus on aspects of physical health, but mental fitness is an area worth exploring. While it may be hard to imagine

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Article119

Identifying Key Performance Indicators in Workplace Wellness Vendors

Andrew Stephenson

With the recent explosion of corporate health and wellness over the past decade, we have witnessed the evolution of a genuine stand-alone health industry.

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Features

Article129

Interview with Dr. Julia Halberg, Director of Global Health, General Mills

Jonathan Edelheit

Corporate Wellness Magazine: Julia, tell us a little about yourself and what you do now at General Mills. Julia: I have been at General Mills for about nine years

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Article120

Creating a Next-Generation Health and Wellness Program - Why Employers Should Take the Lead and How to Do It

Barbara D. Correll

Simply put, good health is good business. Experts agree there is a direct correlation between employee health and bottom-line results — and that building

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Editorial

Article131

The Power of Sleep

Kathy Gruver

Early to bed and early to rise keeps a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Clearly Mr. Franklin didn’t have cats, children, deadlines, a spouse that snored,

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Article128

President Obama’s Health and Wellness and His First Physical Exam as President

Jonathan Edelheit

President Obama just finished his first physical while holding office as President. The results have created some controversy because the President

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Article121

One Size Fits ONE

Brad Cooper

The research is in. An effective employee wellness program will provide a 300-600% ROI through decreased health care, sick time and disability costs

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News & Insights

Article132

Smart & Safe

Tim Rochford

Corporate Self Defense Training Programs – What Should be Included!

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Article127

Can Online Networks Really Help Us Improve our Health, and What Does This Mean for Corporate Wellness?

Allison Lipps and Rachel Permuth-Levine, PhD, MSPH

The idea that patients are responsible for actively managing and maintaining their personal health and well-being – known in the medical community

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Article122

Another Way to Look at Dental Benefits

Careington

According to a 2009 Delta Dental Plans survey, employees want their dental benefits to be easy to use, allow them to use their personal dentist and

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Column

Article126

Junk Food and the American Waistline

Mark Roberts

Ever find yourself snared by the intoxicating smell of a Big Mac or a Whopper? Do you find yourself captured by two all beef patties, special sauce,

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Article123

How to Recruit Champions for your Wellness Team

Colleen Reilly

All cultures have leaders—people who understand the guiding principles of that culture and can help motivate a large group to take action and be successful.

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Economics

Article133

What’s Going on in Wellness, an Update

Anna Konger

I recently attended the Employer Health and Human Capital Congress in Washington, DC which takes place every February in Washington DC and is organized by the World Congress.

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Article124

The Emotional Roots of Physical Disease: Relationship Principles for Preventing Emotional Angst in the Workplace

Jason Krausert, MA and Donna Tosky, CBP

Traditionally, businesses have been slower to adopt wellness programs that support their employees’ emotional well-being than they have programs that

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