Searching For Better Ways To Measure Health
- 07.17.2019
- Wellness
How should a company determine the health of their employees? Traditional thinking would suggest looking at weight or Body Mass Index (BMI), which is a measure of body fat based on height and weight. Despite their popularity, these assessments do ...
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Study: Sitting At Home Is Worse Than Sitting At Work
- 07.10.2019
- Wellness
Numerous studies show that sitting is bad for your health. Prolonged inactivity, such as sitting at a desk all day, has been linked to lower physical and emotional well-being. Now, a recent study delves deeper into sitting and found that all sitting ...
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Fitting The Benefits Of Being Outside Into A Workday
- 07.03.2019
- Wellness
Spending time outside offers many health benefits, and a recent study detailed just how long people should stay outside to gain those advantages (a minimum of 120 minutes per week). However, planning regular time outside isn’t always easy, as work ...
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Study: Employers Should Rethink Ultra-Processed Foods In The Kitchen
- 06.19.2019
- Wellness
It’s not groundbreaking news that ultra-processed foods aren’t healthy, but a new National Institutes of Health study provides a twist: ultra-processed foods can lead to more weight gain even when eating the same amount of calories as someone who ...
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New Zealand’s Bold Step Toward Well-Being
- 06.12.2019
- Wellness
Companies are looking at ways to improve overall employee wellness but never has this initiative been taken on by an entire country. That’s what is happening in New Zealand, whose government has added social outcome goals along with traditional ...
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What Employees Want May Be Making Them Unwell
- 06.10.2019
- Wellness
Smoking is not a healthy habit. That’s indisputable, but still, 34.3 million people in the U.S. smoke. It’s also important to start early to save for retirement, yet one in four adults don’t save any money for that purpose.
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Workplace Burnout Recognized As Medical Condition By WHO
- 06.03.2019
- Wellness
Much has been made about the physical and mental impact work-related stress has on individuals. This impact has led the World Health Organization (WHO) to officially recognize work-related stress, or burnout, as a medical condition.
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Office Air Quality And Environmental Well-Being
- 05.20.2019
- Wellness
When employers talk about wellness and its role in productivity, they are usually referring to physical well-being. Some progressive employers may take mental, social, financial, and other dimensions of well-being into consideration, but few usually ...
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Study: Spending Time In Parks Boosts Emotional Wellness
- 03.25.2019
- Wellness
A recent study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that spending as little as 20 minutes in an urban park can have a significant effect on emotional wellness. While this may seem like an obvious conclusion to draw, especially to ...
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5 Scientifically Proven Health Benefits Of Gratitude
- 11.21.2018
- Wellness
For those readers in the United States, tomorrow will be Thanksgiving, and to some, the official start of a month-long holiday season. The holiday began as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year, but at ...
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