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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.

We also welcome your comments — criticisms, ideas, and, yes, we take compliments, too! Have a thought of what you’d like to see — or see something you think others should know — drop us a line.

Thanks for visiting – and please come back again!

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Laughing-SmileyYesterday was April Fools Day, so we thought we'd ask the relevant question for the day: Is laughter truly the best medicine?

Turns out, it's not bad.

The Mayo Clinic writes a piece titled “Stress relief from laughter? It's no joke.” They add: “When it comes to relieving stress, more giggles and guffaws are just what the doctor ordered.”

The post provides short-term benefits: “When you start to laugh, it doesn't just lighten your load mentally, it actually induces physical changes in your body. Laughter can:”

  • Stimulate many organs.
  • Activate and relieve your stress response.
  • Soothe tension.

And long-term benefits: “Laughter isn't just a quick pick-me-up, though. It's also good for you over the long haul. Laughter may:”

  • Improve your immune system.
  • Relieve pain.
  • Increase personal satisfaction.
  • Improve your mood.

Further, Europe's Journal of Psychology runs an interview with Dr. Arnie Cann of the University of North Carolina Charlotte titled “Research on the Role of Humor in Well-Being and Health.” As the abstract states, “In this interview, Dr. Arnie Cann discusses his research and views on the ubiquitous role of humor in psychological health and well-being.”

As Dr. Cann describes: “In some sense, I have been searching for evidence to support what felt very true for me; that humor plays a part in maintaining my well-being. ”

And that's no joke.

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