Category: General Wellness

Managing Work Related Stress in a Healthy Way

Keep calm and reap the healthy benefits! If you work in a particularly stressful environment, you may be suffering from chronic stress and not even know it. Chronic stress occurs from repeated exposure to stressful situations, and this type of stress is not what are bodies are designed to handle. When our bodies are continuously stressed [...]
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How to Stay Active if Working a Sedentary Job

Look for opportunities to stay active at a sedentary job! American’s spend roughly two thirds of their day at work and with technology advances, more and more jobs are able to be performed entirely from the home or office computer which has led to the ever so common “desk job.” Today, nearly 80% of jobs do [...]
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Tracking how little we move

Fitbit Zip Smart Pedometer The Wall Street Journal has a nice story on the rise in popularity of smart pedometers and activity trackers like the Fitbit and Nike Fuel Band.  I think we often think that we move more than we really do (the article states that the average person takes 5,117 steps per day).  I have found [...]
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Weigh and Win adds its 43rd wellness kiosk in Colorado

The latest HEALTHspot kiosk for the Weigh and Win program has just come online in Boulder Colorado.  Weigh and Win is a community wellness program open to residents of Colorado that are 18 and over.  The program is sponsored by Kaiser Permanente and powered by incentaHEALTH's patented HEALTHspot® kiosk.  The kiosk, located at the Boulder Public [...]
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Husband and wife team lose 10% of their body weight with Weigh and Win

Weigh and Win participant Cassie Kauffman weighs in on an incentaHEALTH HEALTHspot kiosk The Greeley Tribune has a neat feature on the Weigh and Win program. In this story you'll hear about how participant Cassie Kauffman uses the customized coaching tools and weight loss incentives to lose weight and stay motivated.  Weigh and Win is a [...]
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Community wellness program reaches 23,000 Coloradans!

Weigh and Win Kiosk Map (partial) In about 18 months over 23,000 citizens of Colorado have enrolled in a first-of-its-kind community wellness program.  The program, a private labeled version of incentaHEALTH called WeighAndWin.com, pays people to achieve a healthy weight.  40 HEALTHspot kiosks are deployed across the state.  Participants simply stop by one of the kiosks [...]
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