Tips & Tricks for your healthy lifestyle!
Wellness Programs: What Works? The benefits of worksite wellness programs for employees and employers have been discussed over the past five articles. Are you ready to dive right in? Before you move forward, consider these questions: What should the program actually look like What does the research tell us about best practices? and the big question that […]
We all know the scene – November 1 strikes, eggnog starts flowing, and our social calendars start to fill with holiday parties. We make our favorite indulgent foods and eat the leftovers all week. We have access to treats almost 24/7 from leftover Halloween candy (on sale!) to Aunt Pat’s famous coconut haystack cookies. Even […]
Remember Sally? She’s our friend we met two months ago in “Wellness Programs at Work: Why Bother?” who, as a general rule, leads a sedentary lifestyle and eats take-out mindlessly most days of the week. We talked then about the reasons we owed it to Sally to have a worksite wellness program in place, why […]
Remember January 1? You decided to trade in your pumpkin pie for chicken salad and your party dress for your sports bra. New Year’s resolution mode was engaged. Research says 41 percent of us make New Year’s resolutions, but only nine percent of those make it to their goals. The fact is most people bite […]
April 1 is like New Year’s Day revisited for dietitians. Come what may, every April brings an onslaught of people who suddenly realize that shorts and tank tops are just around the corner. Somewhere inside we don’t feel that horrible about not sticking it out – statistically half of us gave up the second week […]
Meet Sally. Sally eats breakfast in her car or at her desk when she gets to work …if she eats breakfast at all. She forgets to pack lunch most days, so she is at the mercy of food available at or around her office. Sometimes Sally works straight through lunch; other times, she eats lunch […]
