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As part of a corporate wellness program, the company must ensure that their employees have healthy workstations. In workplaces, especially in the office, employees spend most of their time sitting down. Doing this constantly can put undue pressure on several areas of the body such as the back or the neck. ...
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Sickness is one of the leading causes of absence from work, and when an employee gets sick, he or she is not the only one who loses money. The productivity of workers is very important for a company, because this is one of the factors that determines the amount of their revenue. A sick employee, in case he or she shows ...
Not long ago, being healthy ment being free of illnesses; however, this analogy lacks other equally essential components of health and wellness. It is true that the absence of diseases is a criterion of health but it does not end there and it is good to know that the perception about health has changed and nowadays, it is believed that in order to ...
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Today’s article is on Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), which is known as a debilitating, non-contagious illness that can severely limit an individual’s mobility and productivity. CFS is more common in adult women in their 20s to 50s but it is also found in men and the elderly, and less commonly in children. The origin of the disease has not yet been established, but probable causative or predisposing factors include viral infections, genetic susceptibilities, severe emotional trauma, chronic stress, physical and/or ...
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What if I told you there was a tool so powerful and so helpful that it can almost put your quest for weight loss on auto-pilot, well, I would be telling you the truth. Without sounding like an infomercial for some miracle pill or magic juice, what is this mystery force. Simply put, it is your mind!
Like Albert Gyorgyi ...
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The definitive connection between practicing strenuous yoga exercises and losing weight has not been scientifically established. But that doesn’t mean that strenuous yoga and other forms of yoga are mostly ineffective for losing weight. A little bit of research will quickly reveal that the basic goal of yoga is to establish a balance between the body and the mind (plus the spirit).
Losing weight is as much a mental as well as a physical endeavor. The primary cause of excess weight ...
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There is no hard and fast science on preventing cramps during exercise since the medical jury has yet to pin down the exact sequence of events that causes cramps. Numerous predisposing factors and causes have been considered as probable precursors of cramps, but the absence or presence of these factors/causes does not necessarily prevent or lead to cramps. Whether one experiences cramps ...