Helping Your Staff Take a Stand Against Sitting
For employees who spend most of their time staring at computers from chairs behind their desks, sitting can be a real occupational hazard.
A Mayo Clinic analysis of 13 studies – examining more than a million people – found sitting more than eight hours a day without physical activity is as potentially fatal as smoking and obesity.
The Heart Foundation cites research that studied 800,000 people’s sitting habits and concluded those who sit the most have dramatically higher disease and death risks: 112% higher diabetes risk, 147% higher heart attack or stroke risk, 90% higher risk of death from a cardiovascular event, and 49% higher risk of death from any cause.
Helping Your Staff Take a Stand Against Sitting
For employees who spend most of their time staring at computers from chairs behind their desks, sitting can be a real occupational hazard.
A Mayo Clinic analysis of 13 studies – examining more than a million people – found sitting more than eight hours a day without physical activity is as potentially fatal as smoking and obesity.
The Heart Foundation cites research that studied 800,000 people’s sitting habits and concluded those who sit the most have dramatically higher disease and death risks: 112% higher diabetes risk, 147% higher heart attack or stroke risk, 90% higher risk of death from a cardiovascular event, and 49% higher risk of death from any cause.
Businesses Can Help Employees Keep Those Healthy New Year’s Resolutions
Every January, many of us vow to lose weight, quit smoking, eat smarter, and exercise more, prerequisites to better health and lower risk for heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes, lung cancer and other maladies.
And every year, researchers at the University of Scranton say, about 80% of us break those vows by mid-February.
Failure, though, is not preordained. Individuals can attain their health goals, and their employers can play a key supporting role, say health experts like Colleen Gavin, Hilary McMahon, and Gina McDonald from Capital BlueCross.
Gavin, a certified exercise physiologist, and health and wellness coach at Capital BlueCross Connect in Center Valley, Lehigh County, preaches “SMART goals: Smart. Measurable. Achievable. Realistic. Time-bound.”
Businesses Can Help Employees Keep Those Healthy New Year’s Resolutions
Every January, many of us vow to lose weight, quit smoking, eat smarter, and exercise more, prerequisites to better health and lower risk for heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes, lung cancer and other maladies.
And every year, researchers at the University of Scranton say, about 80% of us break those vows by mid-February.
Failure, though, is not preordained. Individuals can attain their health goals, and their employers can play a key supporting role, say health experts like Colleen Gavin, Hilary McMahon, and Gina McDonald from Capital BlueCross.
Gavin, a certified exercise physiologist, and health and wellness coach at Capital BlueCross Connect in Center Valley, Lehigh County, preaches “SMART goals: Smart. Measurable. Achievable. Realistic. Time-bound.”
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