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Workplace Wellness Lab delivers leading insights, ideas and information on wellness, health management, and healthy living.

Our goal is simple: Workplace Wellness Lab provides regular and better information as an important path to create healthy individual outcomes, while helping change health care in America.

By connecting the audiences that matter – consultants, corporate executives, policymakers, thought leaders, journalists, customers, and more – we establish a positive, substantive, and influential voice within the wellness industry that makes the case that:

    • Left unchecked, current trends in health spend and outcomes are unsustainable.
    • Given that half the healthcare dollars in this country are incurred by employers, well-executed preventive care health management programs in the worksite are clearly enduring and valuable, helping drive improved workplace environments and individual outcomes.
    • Industry coherence around private sector innovation to drive effective health management programs is economically vital, given what’s possible in a spend category that is arguably one of the greatest challenges in America today.

Workplace Wellness Lab comes at this challenge principally from the employer point of view: What are the credible and demonstrated best practices in preventive care to structure programs that have an enduring impact? How can the impact be made explicit, as something that is both the right thing to do and a proactive business initiative that lowers the cost of care, as experienced by both employers and employees?

And Workplace Wellness Lab goes beyond the workplace. It’s a robust platform filled with ideas and insights from those that influence how employers think about this opportunity: research organizations, non-profits, think tanks and more.

From an editorial point of view, great ideas can come from anywhere. With that philosophy in mind, we will combine our own original content with other content across the web. We organize the content, with a view to making it as simple and useful as possible.

All content will be sourced. If we found it somewhere, we’ll tell you where we got — and how to get to that site yourself.

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Today marks Global Running Day, which provides an excellent opportunity for well-run workplace wellness programs to inspire and engage members in fitness — either implementing an improved routine or maintaining current activities.

It's possible to start small. According to the Global Running Day site: “Global Running Day is a worldwide celebration of running that encourages everyone to get moving. It doesn’t matter how fast you run or how far you go—what’s important is that you take part, and how you do it is up to you. Run a lap around your block, take your dog for a long walk, or call your friends for a pick-up game in the park. The important thing is that you have fun being active—and you inspire others to join you.”

Of course, we frequently highlight the important role fitness plays in maintaining good health — and for businesses to manage overall health costs. A few examples:

It helps the brain, according to a study published in Nature titled “Higher physical fitness levels are associated with less language decline in healthy ageing.”

It helps individuals manage weight issues, according to a study titled “Low fitness is associated with abdominal adiposity and low-grade inflammation independent of BMI.”

It also can help with chronic disease management, including diabetes, according to a study in Experimental Physiology titled “Functional high intensity exercise training ameliorates insulin resistance and cardiometabolic risk factors in type 2 diabetes.”

The Global Running Day site includes a pledge opportunity for visitors to promise to start running.

We thought we'd provide some global inspiration and note how people globally are showing their commitment to Global Running Day on Twitter:

From Australia:

From London:

From Runners World:

From UK's National Health Service:

From New York:

 

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