Posted in Awareness, Exercise/Fitness, Healthcare, Prevention • Tags: employees, employers, fitness, job, wellness, workplace
More and more are spending people more time sitting behind the desk looking at the computer screen than doing physical exercise. This is one of the reasons why obesity and cardiovascular diseases are becoming an epidemic in the developed world.
“Obesity costs U.S. employers more than $13 billion annually and it also adversely affects the quality of life and health of their workers,” according to LuAnn Heinen, director of the National Business Group on Health’s (NBGH) Institute on the Costs and Health Effects of Obesity.
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Posted on October 9, 2008 by Raquel Billiones • There are 3 comments!
Posted in Atherosclerosis Heart Disease, Blood Pressure, High Blood Pressure, Hypertension Heart Disease, Stress/stressors • Tags: Blood Pressure, job, job stress
Increase in blood pressure has been associated with psychological and emotional stress. But how does stress in the job affect blood pressure? This has been the subject of numerous research studies over the years but the results are conflicting. In this post, I am reviewing 3 studies on 3 different types of workers in Japan.
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Posted on September 29, 2008 by Raquel Billiones • There are no comments, hop to it!