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Are You Pouring on the Pounds Today?
It’s hard to overeat without noticing it. By contrast, soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages can sneak up on you, adding hundreds of calories to your diet each day without ever filling you up. On average, Americans now consume 200 to 300 more ca...
Transformational Weight Loss, Charles Eisenstein
The book is subtitled "A personal revolution for food and body sanity," Charles Eisenstein describes a simplistic alternative to the virtual roller coaster ride many of us take everyday in terms of personal-denial, pain staking self-control, and th...
Congress Plans to Incent Healthy Lifestyles at Work
Employers who would like to offer healthy lifestyle incentives, may get their long-awaited wish, and many members in Congress evidently want to let them. It appears that Congress is planning to give employers sweeping new authority to reward employee...
Succeed with Well Formed Outcomes
Many people have tried setting goals in their life, but unfortunately most never truly achieve those goals, or at best only come close. Well formed outcomes may help you to refine your goals. Based in neuro-linguistic programming theory NLP teaches y...
Salutogenesis @ Work in Health Promotion
A recent Wellforce blog comment spurred this new post - as it relates to health promotion/wellness and the theory of salutogenesis developed by American-Israeli Medical Sociologist, Aron Antonovsky (Unraveling the Mystery of Health '93). The comment ...
Be Office Workout Savvy
The office chair is the perfect prop to work your abs, quads and trapsHave you heard of the Seated Cobra? Its just one of many simple stretches you can do at work. Be creative by doing several exercise that work all of your muscle groups from head to...
A Pocket Guide to Health
While most of us take great care of our pets & cars, we don't always do the same for number one. You'd think we would be even more careful with our bodies, but we're not. One example health screens, only 5 percent of women over 39 follow recommen...
Health Has Unnatural Causes
It often appears that we Americans are obsessed with health. Media outlets trumpet the latest gene and drug discoveries, dietary supplements line shelf after shelf in the supermarket and a multi-billion dollar industry of magazines, ...
The Voice of Cancer.Net
In my advocacy for those touched by cancer, I often highlight top-tier online resources and agencies. Fortunately for you a fellow blogger recently shared information about Cancer.Net and the ASCO making it possible to share it here, thanks Kelly!Can...
Fruit & Veggie Tales - Cancer & Diet
Their may be a fruit & vegetable connection to the majority of the questions about diets related to cancer, and what types of diet should be followed to provide protection from cancer. The research is fairly obvious: Fruits and vegetables! Repor...
Wellforce 180° on Cancer
The focus of this blog will be taking a radical change of course. Over the past ten days I've been grappling with the whole notion of wellness. Why you may ask. Well, illness & disease has become an extremely up-close and personal matter, as ...
Only One in Four Know Signs of Heart Attack
A report from the CDC indicates one in four Americans can recognize the signs of a heart attack and know how to react, a decline from about one in three in 2001. They had been asked about their awareness of the five warning signs of heart attack: pai...
Hawaiian Chair - Exercise at Work Options
Wowsers! Stay in shape while you're setting down at work. The Hawaiian Chair does it all, works your abs, builds core strength and much more. Enjoy, if you laughed as much as I did you'll have burned a few calories just by watching.Or... ...
Go Red with Dawn
I'd like to share with you a video and online story that has caught the attention of YouTube visitors. It is a wonderful message about how a cover model, Dawn Nakamura Kessler an American Heart Association volunteer has gone Red and is a lifelong sur...
Safeway Healthy Foodflex Program
Safeway is definitely making good on it's tag line "ingredients for life".Could online nutrition-tracking services encourage consumers and workers to make healthier choices? I don't know about you but I use my shoppers card on my...
Healthy Hearts & Minds Campaign
This short film describes the biophilic approach, and how nature has a restorative effect on body and mind. Waring! For the best results make sure you get out and connect with nature today. Developed by Mark Swift, Health Improvement Specialist for H...
Putting More "Bite" into Wellness
Raising awareness for dental care remains a struggle in health promotionIn addition to lack of exercise and poor nutrition, poor oral hygiene and gum disease can lead to the loss of teeth and an increased risk of more serious diseases, including hear...
DrScore a Trusted Resource
Always a believer in walking the talk, I took the opportunity to rate my physician @ Dr.Score today myself. A review of the site, finds it to be very user-friendly, and I was quite impressed with their patient resources*, too! From various patient a...
Prevention at All Costs - Not!
Lifetime Medical Costs of Obesity: Prevention No Cure for Increasing Health ExpenditureA Dutch study published in the Public Library of Science Journal counters the common perception that preventing obesity will save health care systems worldwide mil...
Wellness Detective - "PI"
The complexities of Health Care today cannot be solved by working solely down-stream, and must move beyond the notion of prevention at the individual level. The focus must shift form simply changing individual behavior & habits, and forge up-stre...
Big Game Options, for Healthy Super Bowl Bash
Did you know that Super Bowl Sunday is often recognized as the second biggest single day of food consumption in the United States after Thanksgiving. And weather you're a Giants or Patriots fan we all know a bit of a bash is a requirement. But parti...
Go Red, Light the Way
Put a red light on your front porch, and show you care!Today the term "red light" has new meaning & symbolism. Please take the time today to shine your light. Heart Disease Doesn’t Care What You Wear—but. today is the day to show your love &...
Rub-a-Dub-Dub
Workplace cubicles can harbor not just dirt and grim but microbes too. Think about it, employees are coughing and sneezing all over everything this time of year. On top of that, they tend to eat at their desks too, and that gives hungry bacteria ext...
Wellness - Planes, Trains & Automobiles
While most of us take great care of our pets & cars, we don't always do the same for ourselves. You'd think we would be even more careful with our bodies, but we're not when it comes to health screenings & check-ups. Only 5 percent of women o...
What's on the Wellness Menu Today?
Health and wellness programs date back to early 70s when some companies implemented exercise programs to keep CEO's fit. While health and wellness programs for the people in the trenches gained popularity in the late 1980s, the momentum slowed during...
