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Johnson & Johnson: A Wellness Success Story by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

People's HealthBlogger Awards 2008 - Best 100 Winner!

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Thanks to skyrocketing health care costs, employee wellness has been in the news a lot these days. But according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Johnson & Johnson has und ... Read on »

New Rules for Health Risk Assessments by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health If your company has a wellness program, chances are you've asked your employees to complete a Health Risk Assessment. The HRA is an in-depth questionnaire that evaluates each ... Read on »

H1N1 Vaccine Misconceptions by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health After a month-long absence, Corporate Wellness Insights is back--and there is much to talk about in the world of health and wellness. Today, we're offering an brief flu update ... Read on »

The Challenge of Smoking Cessation by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health As wellness professionals, we spend a lot of time talking about the long-term cost of obesity. It's not surprising to learn that most workplace wellness programs focus on diet ... Read on »

Preventing Illness at the Workplace by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Last week, we blogged that the vaccine for H1N1 has been approved by officials and will likely be distributed first to those who need it most: children and health workers, amo ... Read on »

Do Successful Dieters Have Different Brains? by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health If you haven't visited healthfinder.gov, a website from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I suggest you do so. It's a great source of information on a variety ... Read on »

Healthy Eating on the Go by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Today's blog is about maintaining a healthy diet while traveling--an especially relevant topic for one of our busy program managers. Her latest project will take her from our ... Read on »

The Long-Term Importance of Wellness by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health As wellness professionals, we know how closely corporate executives focus on ROI--the return on investment of a wellness program. While numerous studies have shown that employ ... Read on »

Swine Flu Update by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Good news on the H1N1 front this week: the vaccine has been approved by health officials, and U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius assures the public that there will be eno ... Read on »

The Latest Health Wonk Review by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health If you're interested in the very latest health news from the blogosphere, check out the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review, posted at Healthcare Technology News. You can ... Read on »

When Counting Calories Goes Too Far by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health A few weeks ago, we lauded Kaiser Permanente for adding calorie information and nutrition information to its hospital cafeteria menus, assuming that more information about the ... Read on »

The Benefits of Exercise at Any Age by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health If you've been reading Corporate Wellness Insights for very long, you know that we're big advocates of exercise, at any age. One of our clients, a local retirement home, even ... Read on »

Cutting Down on Salt Could Save Billions by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Earlier this spring, we blogged that New York City health regulators were considering a crack-down on salt, along the same lines as their current war against artery-clogging t ... Read on »

The Mediterranean Diet Can Help Control Diabetes, Study Says by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Experts have long touted the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet --lots of lean meats and fish, fruits and vegetables, and healthy fats such as olive oil. A new study ex ... Read on »

Employee Wellness Programs Starting to Include Spouses by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health As wellness professionals, we (quite naturally) spend most of our time focusing on the health and well-being of employees. But as a recent Wall Street Journal article points o ... Read on »

Is Obesity Contagious? by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Back in February, we argued that kids often mimic their parents' behavior when it comes to making healthy choices. Other studies cast doubt on that conclusion, and we blogged ... Read on »

Swine Flu Update by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health If you're a new follower of Corporate Wellness Insights, you may not have seen our previous blogs on H1N1 (swine flu). If you missed them, catch up here, here, and here. For t ... Read on »

The Latest Health Wonk Review by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review has been posted at The Lucidicus Project blog. For an excellent rundown of what the blogosphere has been saying about health care, ... Read on »

D.C. Police Department Loses 1,100 Pounds by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health We've blogged several times about the success of weight loss competitions, especially in the work setting. They're engaging, fun, and they get results. According to a recent a ... Read on »

Tax Junk Food to Fight Obesity? by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Must of us have heard the startling statistics on obesity; nearly two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. But it's especially troubling to consider that nearly 18 per ... Read on »

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