One of the key benefits of an effective wellness plan is it can help with a major area of health care: Prevention. The U.S. Surgeon General's office created a terrific interactive infographic that let's users walk through various simple tasks individuals can take...
All employees would love a holiday gift from their employer. How would you like that gift to be a bicycle? That's what Ikea gave their employees one year, according to the Washington Post. But this year, after asking workers what they'd want, the retailer gave all...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers a series of pages that lay out the "business case" for Workplace Health Promotion. Says the CDC: "To improve the health of their employees, businesses can create a wellness culture that is employee-centered;...
It's the day after the day after. You enjoyed New Year's Eve. You had all New Year's Day to recover. Now it's time to make sure you have resolutions in place. To get help, we turned to Readers Digest, which lists "nine healthy resolutions." Choose the ones you like --...
Employee Benefit Advisor turned to Interactive Health CEO Cathy Kenworthy for tips to help keep your New Year's Resolutions. The result is a nifty slide show that acknowledges that "sticking to New Year’s resolution can be tough." One area covered: "Three Factors of...
We make them in our so-called "real lives," but we spend more time at the office than just about anywhere else. So why shouldn't we have New Year's resolutions for workplace wellness? A piece in Benefits Pro by Sylvia Landy Vail, co-founder of Mainstay, Inc., offers...
It's been a busy year at Wellness Works Hub, with an incredible range of wellness-related pieces from all across the web. Here are the top 10 pieces of the year (plus one for good luck!): 10+) Sitting is as Bad for You as Smoking: Dr. Michael Jensen, from the Mayo...
Gallup released its annual poll of professions with the highest ethics, and -- no surprise -- nurses win again. The report on the poll states: "Nurses have topped the list each year since they were first included in 1999, with the exception of 2001 when firefighters...
The holidays bring joy to many, but of course, they also bring stress. Especially at the office, where employees may have too much to do and not enough time to do it (or, the problem might be that they have family coming to visit!). The Toronto Globe and Mail reports...