Lifestyle Over Annual Exam People are not machines. An annual checkup is not necessarily beneficial and may even be counter-productive for health. We need to move to a Lifestyle Over Annual Exam approach where providers engage people on Lifestyle, not a battery of costly tests that provide suspect value. Many physicians continue to perform annual […]
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Employee Wellness Education It great to have a benefit… but it is really only a benefit if you know about it and can use it. Enter employee wellness education and accountability. “Another problem that stops employees from making really important changes is a lack of accountability,” the authors write. “Start employee resource groups so
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Wellness Evidence Quite often we come across someone who is interested in a more holistic approach to health. Unfortunately, they hesitate because there is no wellness evidence. Without “evidence” so many therapeutic modalities are dismissed as placebo effect or even just “woo woo” (we’ve actually heard that term). Some systems like Traditional Chinese Medicine or
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Quit Smoking Naturally Helen Sanders of Health Ambition (www.healthambition.com) does a wonderful job in this article to people quit smoking naturally. Helen does not go the “preachy” route that turns off so many people. Rather, she builds a framework that the consumer can use to quit smoking once and for all. Everyone gets addicted to
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Sick Care One morning I was setting up a booth at a trade show. I had time to spare so I looked for the coffee. The facility was still preparing everything for breakfast so I slumped back to the booth to wait. A few minutes later I overheard a gentleman ask the conference administrators about
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Cinnamon Burns Fat As the article states, this is no “silver bullet” but the fact that cinnamon burns fat is quite helpful. Here we can follow Hippocrates’ advice “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” For pennies most people can add cinnamon to a healthy meal and reap the benefits of cinnamon.
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The Hospital in Hospitality The English word hospital finds its roots in the Late Latin hospitale “guest-house, inn,” (click here for more etymology) and evolved to focus on the sick and needy. The idea that the hospitality industry has taken a renewed interest in health and wellbeing for its guests really isn’t so new. While hospitals continue to
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Tried Cupping Cupping seems like one of those things that can’t work. Just too easy. Yet many Olympic athletes and Hollywood stars have tried cupping and marvel at its benefits. It’s the secret to Michael Phelps recovery and Gwyneth’s detox routine. But does cupping really work, and how long do those marks last? One writer
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Millennial Health Care Americans born between between the early 1980’s to the mid 1990’s are often labeled “Millennials” as a demographic to depict / explain behavior of the generation. While we should not rely too much on demographics, each generation does have some defining characteristics. Millennials have entered an increasingly expensive and broken “sick care”
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Executive Health If ever there was model of “spare no expense” healthcare it is executive health. These key people are responsible for millions (or billions) of dollars and hundreds or thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of employees. It is critical to these organization that those folks remain healthy, hence the specialty of Executive Health– from
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