Population Health Insights – Page 18

How to Use Incentives in a Wellness Program to Improve Employee Health

Imagine you’re reaching for the last glazed doughnut, when someone says they will give you $20 to put it down. Would you find yourself eating the doughnut or opting for the money? Hopefully, the money would be enough of an incentive to decline the doughnut. Incentives motivate some employees to engage in healthier behaviors that yield [...]

How Can You Set Up a Corporate Weight Loss Challenge?

How Can You Set Up a Corporate Weight Loss Challenge? Starting a corporate weight loss challenge is a relatively simple process that can yield huge results. With the growing obesity epidemic in today’s society, the demand for such a program in the workplace is crucial. Listed below are steps to begin a corporate weight loss challenge [...]

What are the Benefits of Running a Corporate Weight Loss Challenge?

Imagine a workplace full of happier, healthier employees. Health is one of the major concerns throughout the world. As obesity climbs and sedentary lifestyles increase, so have health complications and preventable diseases. Many people fall into a constant cycle of excuses, using lack of time as an excuse for not fitting exercise into their busy work [...]

Why Does it Make Sense to Run a Corporate Weight Loss Challenge?

Obesity and weight related illnesses are steadily increasing. With sedentary workplaces and lifestyles, the need for a healthier lifestyle and reduction of body fat is essential. Many people are faced with a lack of motivation when it comes to taking the initiative to lose weight. Others eat for convenience and use work as an excuse, telling [...]

Mayo Clinic: “Money talks when it comes to losing weight”

A recent study has found more evidence that rewarding individuals for losing weight improves outcomes in weight management programs. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic offered cash incentives to a group of participants if they were able to succeed at losing a target of 4 pounds per month. According to the researchers the results for the incentive [...]

A Healthy Breakfast Can Jump Start Your Overall Health!

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 [...]

How to Stay Healthy When Everyone in the Workplace is Sick

You can prevent catching workplace illnesses with these tips! Working in a contaminated environment can be rather uncomforting as you greatly hope to avoid your co-workers illnesses. It is to be expected that sick individuals will still come into work, subsequently increasing your risk for catching the same illness. What do you do to stay healthy [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]