Category: wellness

Are free meditation apps the answer for stressed staff?

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Calorie restriction indeed helps you live longer (and better)

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"People say that 'you are what you eat,' and we're finding that to be true in lots of ways," says Concepcion Rodriguez Esteban, another of the paper's authors and a staff researcher at Salk. "The state of your cells as you age clearly depends on your interactions with your environment, which includes what and how... Continue Reading →

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Workers fail to address their own health concerns

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Employees are concerned about their health and well-being, but they lack specific knowledge of their health status and motivation to change poor behaviors It may pay for employers to go the limit to encourage worker health. A Humana study from August 2019 found that a healthy workforce leads to higher productivity and healthcare savings. The health insurer said... Continue Reading →

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Employees want digital health support from their employers

“The findings from the ‘Health on Demand’ survey confirm our belief that employers looking to build a workplace culture of wellbeing and to improve talent retention should consider digital health investments, otherwise they risk being left behind in today’s competitive global labour markets.” https://www.itij.com/latest/news/employees-want-digital-health-support-their-employers

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Why Apple and Johnson & Johnson’s new heart study is a big deal for digital health

The goal is to recruit 150,000 people who will be randomly assigned into one of two buckets. Either they’ll be navigated iPhone app, called Heartline, which provides health education and tips. Or they’ll be given the Apple Watch, either as a loaner device or at a heavily subsidized price of $49 plus tax. That’s a heavy... Continue Reading →

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Employers are adding high-tech solutions to solve a low-tech problem: Getting more sleep

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After several years of recognizing sleep’s role in productivity and controlling health-care costs, some employers are actively giving employees tools to do something about it, taking advantage of new hardware and apps to affect behavioral changes. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/employers-are-adding-high-tech-solutions-to-solve-a-low-tech-problem-getting-more-sleep/

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