STRICTLY WELLNESS .: Don’t Fall Prey to Disgruntled or Disloyal Employees and Employment Lawsuits!

DOES WELLNESS REALLY WORK AND; WHO SHOULD PAY FOR IT?
The AMA states, “70% of healthcare costs can be attributed to lifestyle-related illness and are therefore preventable” If what the AMA claims is true, and recent studies have shown that it is, then keeping employees and their dependents healthy must obviously be a key component in your benefits planning strategy if you hope to manage the...
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HEALTH CARE COST FACTORS
WHAT'S KILLING US AND WHY Chronic diseases caused approximately 60% of deaths worldwide in 2005, including cardiovascular disease (stroke and heart disease), cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes. (PricewaterhouseCoopers, Working Towards Wellness. Feb 2007 Report*) The United States spent over $2.0 trillion in...
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What Does a Wellness Team Do?
ANATOMY OF A WELLNESS TEAM The “Three Questions” Checklist: What are the organization’s short-term and long-term strategic priorities? What benefits can be expected from your wellness initiative and what is the potential value of health promotion to the organization? What are the leadership styles, pressures, strengths...
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Choosing a Healthcare or Wellness Plan That is Right For You and Your Family
The abundance of available medical or health care insurance plans on the market can make choosing a policy and a provider an intimidating proposition. Consider the following factors when searching for a health care plan that is appropriate for the needs of your family. Working with a physician: many health care insurance providers have a...

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What Are Your Employees' Wellness Needs?
As we go about our busy lives, our wellness needs doesn’t often come to mind. In fact, probably until you read the title of this article, it never even crossed your mind. But even when we are well, we have needs that help us to sustain that wellness. Have you ever given thought to what those needs are? Your...
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The Benefits of Being Well
Wellness of the body occurs when all the body processes, physical and mental are functioning as the peak levels. What does it take to achieve a complete body wellness? It requires more than simply taking a trip to the gym, or a walk in the park. The many benefits of being well make our lives more enriched and easier to live. We are...
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Behaviors causing Employee Stress
Do you believe in predictions? Well, if you were educated you would know that no man or woman could predict our future. However, we all have the ability to predict our future. Sounds contradictory does it. Behaviors help us to determine how our lives will turn out. Behaviors are the manner in which we conduct our self on a daily...
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Quality of Life in the Workplace: Is Health Important?
As a matter of course, all responsible persons should take the time to educate themselves, and their children, about the benefits of healthy eating. Learning to eat for life in a health conscious way is one of the best guarantees for a long and fulfilling life. The quality of our lives is as important as the quantity to most...
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What Role Does Nutrition Play in Your Employees' Health?
Nutrition as it applies to our daily lives means that we take in what we need to maintain our body’s healthy state. Nutrition has become an important word thanks to the involvement of the USDA in our daily food requirements, and the FDA’s involvement in determining what is and is not dangerous for us to consume. What about eating...
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Fitness, Wellness or, both?
You pick up the magazines each day, and you’re bombarded with health and fitness information. Advertisements and articles that are designed to impart much needed information to the reader about the state of fitness and health in America today, and what we as responsible citizens should do. I want you to stop, and think...
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Managing Employee Stress
What is stress and how does it affect us? Stress is a reaction to a fear that affects both our body and mind. We are constantly dealing with changes in society, workplace, home and so forth. Stress targets our mind and sends the residue to our body, influencing the nervous system to explode. Stress is either positive or negative,...
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How I Traded My Diet for a Lifestyle and Lost 24 Pounds
HOW I TRADED MY DIET FOR A LIFESTYLE AND LOST 24 POUNDS IN 12 WEEKS! Dieting is a pain. I think basically everyone would agree that having to adhere to a rigid restriction of your free-flow eating preferences puts a bit of a damper on the whole food experience, especially if you’ve been raised Italian like me growing up. For Italians,...
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Are Laser Printers More Dangerous Than Cigarettes?
STUDY SHOWS LASER PRINTERS ARE AS HARMFUL AS CIGARETTES A recent study shows that using the printer in your office may harm the air quality as much as lighting up a cigarette. That’s a special concern, as many states move to make smoking in the workplace illegal. Researchers at the International Laboratory for Air Quality & Health...

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Employee Stress Managing Techniques
Stress managing techniques can provide us a wealth of relaxation. Stress is sometimes obvious, while at other times stress is underlying a root and waiting for the right moment to erupt. For example I study human behaviors, have been my entire life. I noticed a woman at a green light the other day waiting for a chain of vehicles to move...
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When Employee stress becomes a Psychological Symptom
Stress is common. We all have to deal with stress and stressors daily, but when a person is overwhelmed without relief for an extended time then psychological symptoms are most likely included. When a person is stressed, they often feel that they are going crazy. To help you understand the fine lines between crazy, common and...
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Wellness Terminology
There are many words today associated with wellness. Many of those terms are new for readers, and some of the terms are interchangeable between fitness, wellness, and health. So let’s take a minute to explain some of the terms you may see from time to time. Wellness itself is defined as the condition of good physical and...
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How Do We Evaluate Wellness?
Wellness of the body occurs when all the body processes, physical and mental are functioning as the peak levels. What does it take to achieve a complete body wellness? It requires more than simply taking a trip to the gym, or a walk in the park. To evaluate our state of wellness, we must establish the goals we achieve through being...
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Go Green, Go and Grow Organic
How To Avoid Genetically Modified Foods From Your Diet! Whether Genetically Modified (GM) foods are harmful is still controversial, but some people would prefer to avoid them until the evidence is clear. Most foods we eat may contain ingredients derived from Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)--everything from baby formula and food...

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Information on Employee Wellness
What is wellness and where do we go to learn about wellness? Wellness is defined as our overall good health, and the condition sustained by healthy eating and fitness habits. We have so many places to turn for wellness information, that it would be impossible to cover all the possibilities in one article. However, we’ll cover the...
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