Any healthy diet starts with a healthy, wholesome breakfast. You’ve probably heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day; well what you’ve heard is actually right! The importance of starting your day with a healthy breakfast can be directly attributed to overall health and well-being. Breakfast is undeniably the smartest way to begin [...]
Category: Workplace Weight Loss
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here is a quick clip about Weigh and Win that was just featured on Colorado's Best. In this interview you'll see one of incentaHEALTH's Health Coaches talking about how the program works. The best part is hearing from an actual participant as she describes how the program has helped her lose over 50 pounds! The before-and-after [...]
Weigh and Win Success Story as told by Cassie Here's a neat blog post from a participant in Weigh and Win (the version of incentaHEALTH that we private labeled and operate for Kaiser Permanente). In the post, you'll hear program participant Cassie talk about her weight loss journey. It's always fun to see how the program works in [...]
Don't just sit there! The USA Today has a nice piece today on the correlation between sitting and life expectancy. As you might have guessed, spending a lot of time sitting increases your risk. In the study, scientists found that if you reduced your time spent sitting to less than 3 hours, you could add 2 [...]
Google has done some neat analysis on how its employees use the free cafeteria's. Based on the findings, they have made some neat tweaks to how they present their food. Take a look at the results in this article from Fast Company. Fast Company article on Google's cafeteria overhaul
The AP did a nice story about our obesity prevention program with Kaiser Permanente. We have just finished our first year running the program in Colorado and we've already attracted over 18,000 participants. And those participants have lost over 40,000 pounds. In this video you'll meet one of the participants who describes her journey toward better [...]
Here's an inspirational interview with one of our participants. Tanya joined our Weigh and Win program that we run for Kaiser Permanente here in Colorado. She was featured in an earlier story about the program. Now she's back to show her latest results. Well done Tanya! You progress is inspiring others to take that daunting first [...]
80% of Employers Plan to Use Financial Incentives to Encourage Participation Wellness Programs by 2012 Eager to lower healthcare costs, employers are increasingly looking to incentives as a way to encourage their employees to improve their health. According to a recent study by the National Business Group on Health, the use of financial incentives in wellness [...]
