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NewsTarget survey results, part 3: Making health changes that positively affect work performance Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Corporate wellness All of this comes down to corporate wellness programs. In the near future, corporations are going to become increasingly involved in the health of their employees. We're seeing this in many different areas right now. Some corporations are refusing to hire employees who are obese because of the increased healthcare costs associated with obesity or diabetes.

An effective corporate wellness program can also reward people for lowering their overall body weight, lowering their cholesterol or making improvements that are easily measured by competent medical personnel. The bottom line is that no corporation can force its employees to make positive changes if the employees don't want to make them. That's where the power of information enters.

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They are true believers in corporate wellness programs, which is something I strongly support. I think that here in corporate America, we need to stop treating employees as mere resources and machines, and start thinking about them as human beings. We need to really connect with them and find out what they need and what their challenges are outside of their work tasks. Where can they find balance in their lives, and how can we as employers help create environments and impart information that can help these employees improve their lives outside of work?

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SAHEM combines gentle body movement, self-massage, relaxation exercises, breathing, meditation, and visualization to create self-healing and health enhancement programs that are now gaining popularity in hospitals, schools,YMCAs, corporate wellness programs, social agencies, churches, and communities at large throughout the U.S.15 Evidence of the robust growth of Qigong and Tai Chi is reflected in the fact that the National Qigong Association has grown 1,000% in just six years.

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Linda Langan contributes an article on "Corporate Wellness: Wave of the Future." As director of Wellness Services at a major San Francisco Bay Area hospital, she has had ample hands-on experience of how such programs work. She reveals, "The areas typically included in a corporate program are exercise, smoking cessation, substance abuse, stress management, nutrition and safety practices." Holistic Business: How to Create Win-Win Carol Carpenter BECAUSE I am interested in holistic health, I had difficulty in coming to grips with the whole notion of doing business.

P.H., "Corporate Wellness: Wave Of The Future." Bay City Business Journal, April, 1984, Vol. 2, No. 9, p. 25. Understandably, corporations are alarmed and are looking for solutions to their health care bills. A one percent savings to a large corporation translates into a substantial sum of money. As "informed consumers," corporations have the ability to interject free market economics into the health care system. Corporations are already involved in some innovative insurance plans which promote more appropriate individual utilization of health services.

The goal of corporate wellness programs is to have a positive impact on employee lifestyle habits. The areas typically included in a corporate program are exercise, smoking cessation, substance abuse, stress management, nutrition and safety practices. Many organizations are under the impression that a properly motivated individual can make a permanent, positive behavior change without outside help. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that permanent behavior changes require the motivational impetus of the employee and the organization.

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