Wellness

Theres little doubt among most of us that obesity remains one of the greatest preventable threats to employee health and well being. Which also makes it one of the single greatest health care cost drivers.

Getting employees to be actively engaged in wellness has been a challenge to many organizations because the motivation to jump into the pool has been lacking on the part of workers in some instances. The age old question is How do you get people involved?

Mexico, which claims to have the fattest children in the world, is trying to encourage others to follow Anghella's lead. Public schools have banned junk food and are requiring more hours of physical education while the federal government has launched a media campaign that invites families to enroll their kids...

Health officials say more adults in the Midwest and West have suicidal thoughts than people in the rest of the country, but Rhode Island leads in suicide attempts.

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A new study supports getting mammograms every other year instead of annually.

A new government study finds a small fraction of those teens show signs of a troubling anxiety disorder that can be mistaken for extreme shyness.

I came in here today to vent about wellness programs and how most companies run these things like holiday parties: everybodys worried about the food.