Allergy Season Spring brings a welcomed change, especially after a long winter spent stuck indoors! While we are all excited to get outdoors more and enjoy the sunshine and new blooms, this time of year often causes allergy flareups for many people. The most common spring allergens are pollen and the symptoms include: congestion, runny nose, itchy […]
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Mindfulness Meditation Explained You have probably heard the term “mindfulness” a lot more in recent years as it has become a popular way to help people manage their stress. You might be wondering though, what exactly is mindfulness and how does it help with stress? We will answer both of those questions below! The American
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How Nature Improves Our Health As stated by the American Heart Association, spending time in nature can help relieve stress and anxiety, improve your mood, and boost feelings of happiness and well-being. Providing our body and mind with some much needed time in nature provides very similar results to that of practicing meditation. Some additional, science-backed benefits of
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The Benefits of Wellness Programs The RAND Health Workplace Wellness Programs Study is one of the most rigorous and comprehensive reviews of wellness programs to date. The researchers that conducted the report overall concluded, “… workplace wellness programs can help contain the current epidemic of lifestyle-related diseases, the main driver of premature morbidity and mortality as
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Stress in America 2022 Insights There is no denying that the COVID-19 pandemic has created a mental health crisis. To better understand the impact of the past two years on individual stress, the American Psychological Association partnered with The Harris Poll to conduct a survey their annual Stress in America ™ survey. This survey, conducted in February and
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History of WHO In 1945, diplomats met to form the United Nations. One of the topics they discussed during this meeting was the need to set up a up a global health organization. After a few years, the World Health Organization was officially created and their constitution was signed on April 7, 1948. WHO is now
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Stress Awareness Month April is Stress Awareness Month! This observance is a national, cooperative effort to inform people about the dangers of stress, successful coping strategies, and harmful misconceptions about stress that are prevalent in our society. While Stress Awareness Month has been an ongoing campaign of awareness and education since 1992, the last few
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12th Annual Health and Well-Being Survey Business Group on Health is the preeminent advocate for large employers in health care policy. Their team of experts are an authority in the health and benefits realm and they are constantly providing innovative solutions and insights for health and benefits issues. One of their major contributions each year
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Nutrient-Dense Foods Explained You may have heard the terms “empty calories” and “nutrient-dense” before and wondered what they mean. As explained by the American Heart Association, the standard American diet is high in calories and low in nutrients, meaning we as a country consume a lot of empty calories. Leslie Ramirez, clinical dietitian at Houston Methodist,
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Mental Health Crisis In our previous blog post, we talked about the benefits of spring cleaning and decluttering your home and workspace. But, did you know that you can also spring clean and declutter your mind? Mental health experts say that the arrival of spring can serve as a natural point to take stock of our
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