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For the 2015 report http://www.slideshare.net/hamutalewin/2015-consumer-trends-in-fb-insights-from-sial-paris
Our lifestyle sometimes keeps our health at stake for being hectic and unruly. Due to this imbalance in our day-to-day lives our body often fall prey to chronic diseases. With the change in our way of living and working our food habits has also gone hay ware.
Heart attacks are one of the leading causes of death in America. With most of us suffering from various kinds of health conditions and adding a lot of extra stress to the heart through our lack of activity and poor eating habits, it is no wonder that many of us are just ticking time bombs before we are able to experience a heart attack ourselves.
Mother Nature has taken hundreds of thousands of years of evolution to develop your heart along with the rest of your body.
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We hope you enjoy the March 2015 issue of Wellbeing Insights, our employee wellness newsletter that offers practical tips to inspire readers to make healthy changes in their lives. March is Nutrition Awareness Month.
Our June edition of Wellbeing Insights is all about Men's Health. All those tough questions about what screenings to get, to what questions you should be asking your doctor are covered in this jam-packed issue.
Does an apple a day really keep the doctor away?
Is 100 an obtainable number for us living in the 21st century?
Find out all that and more in this month's issue of Wellbeing Insights. Also, September is National Suicide Prevention Month. Learn some fast facts and preventive measures about the 10th leading cause of death of Americans.
In this issue of Wellbeing Insights, we cover important summer wellness topics including sun care, iron deficiency, skin cancer signs and sun burn care.
CBIZ Wellbeing Insights November 2015 is out! This month's issue puts the spotlight on Type 2 Diabetes. Also included are tips for getting ahead of holiday weight gain and ways to save during the holidays!
The latest issue of CBIZ Wellbeing Insights has been released. The March issue features a lenghty discussion on the importance of sleep and tips on how to get more of it. Also included is a nice section on becoming flexibly fit. Rounding out the publication is a slew of information on the financial benefits of a healthy lifestyle.
The CBIZ Wellbeing Insights for December 2016 has been released. The latest publication places an emphasis on beating those winter blues, goal-setting for the new year, year-end tax reductions tips and much more.
The December 2015 issue of The CBIZ Wellbeing Insights is out! This issue covers everything from providing a blueprint for Happy Holidays to the "Do-It-Every-Day" workout. With a section on financial goal setting and a sweet recipe for sweet potatoes rounding out the issue, this is definitely one not to be missed.
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Heart disease claims three times as many female lives as breast cancer. To coincide with Go Red For Women month this June, we've created a step-by-step plan to slashing stress, eating well and safeguarding your body's hardest working organ, direct from the experts at Prevention.
Achieving superior health is not beyond your reach. You might not be aware but we are almost all programmed to live long. But the quality of that ‘long’ depends greatly on how we live, what we eat and drink. The promise of living more than a 100 years in good health seems pretty appealing to me, especially that the ways to achieve it are not that complicated.
Health & Wellness 2014 Snapshot (Look for the 2015 Update by Schieber Research)Hamutal Schieber
Market and consumer trends in the health & wellness sphere, particularly relevant to F&B/ Retail companies.
For the 2015 report http://www.slideshare.net/hamutalewin/2015-consumer-trends-in-fb-insights-from-sial-paris
Our lifestyle sometimes keeps our health at stake for being hectic and unruly. Due to this imbalance in our day-to-day lives our body often fall prey to chronic diseases. With the change in our way of living and working our food habits has also gone hay ware.
Heart attacks are one of the leading causes of death in America. With most of us suffering from various kinds of health conditions and adding a lot of extra stress to the heart through our lack of activity and poor eating habits, it is no wonder that many of us are just ticking time bombs before we are able to experience a heart attack ourselves.
Mother Nature has taken hundreds of thousands of years of evolution to develop your heart along with the rest of your body.
The following are 20 ways to improve your heart health.
- Exercise at least 30 minutes each day, including strength training and aerobic exercise.
- Have a healthy diet, filled with plenty of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts and seeds.
- Reduce your salt intake by following the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
- Don't smoke or use other tobacco products.
- Lose weight if you are overweight or obese.
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1. February 2015
In This Issue:
Facts About
Coronary Artery
Disease
Top 10
Travel Tips
Barbara Walters
Gets Personal
February is Heart Health Month
Living a Better, More Vibrant Life
WELLBEING
Insights
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2. Small Changes can make a Big Difference…
like reconnecting with family and friends, getting
outdoors and pursuing fun hobbies.
2. Indulge in chocolate
Go ahead, rip open that dark chocolate candy bar or
treat yourself to a luscious chocolate-covered
strawberry. It turns out that chocolate does not just
tickle your taste buds; studies show small amounts of
dark chocolate can lower your blood pressure,
increase blood vessel health and improve your good
cholesterol. The magic is in the flavanols; an
antioxidant believed to be the active ingredient that
gives chocolate its heart-healthy benefits. Just
remember, a standard chocolate bar is between 200
and 300 calories, so indulge in moderation.
3. Sleep in
The next time you feel guilty about spending extra
time in bed, just remember you are doing your heart a
favor. As little as one extra hour of sleep can lower
your risk of developing calcium deposits in your
arteries, a precursor of heart disease. Sleep also
February is Heart Health Month. It is never too late to
try to improve your cardiovascular health.
Heart disease is still the number one killer of both men
and women. The good news: it can often be prevented.
While keeping your heart healthy is serious business, it
can also be fun. In honor of American Heart Month, the
following are five surprisingly enjoyable ways for you to
show your heart some extra love.
1. Take a trip
As if you needed more reason to book those plane
tickets; taking time off can cut your risk of a heart
attack by almost one-third. Researchers suspect that
vacation-takers may have better heart health because
time off helps reduce stress, one of the biggest
contributors to heart disease. Vacation time provides
opportunities to do other good-for-your-health things,
3. protects you from too much exposure to the stress hormone cortisol,
which causes high blood pressure.
4. Soak up a little sun
This does not mean you should lie out in the sun until you look like a
lobster. But 10 to 15 minutes of exposure a day can help protect
your ticker. This is because sunlight stimulates the production of
vitamin D, which some studies suggest may help your heart by
preventing or treating high blood pressure and warding off the
buildup of plaque in the arteries. It does not take much sun though,
so be careful of overexposure.
5. Grab a drink
Raise a toast to your heart! Research shows moderate drinking of
red wine — this is no more than one drink a day for women; two for
men — may help lower your risk of heart disease by as much as 40
percent. The ethanol in alcohol helps to increase HDL (good)
cholesterol and prevent blood clots.
Barbara Walters Gets Personal
Barbara Walters is a world renowned journalist. Her credits include being on
television for over 50 years in such programs as the Today show, ABC
Evening News, 20/20, The View and those enlightening celebrity specials
that dive into the personal lives of her guests.
What most people do not realize is that while the 80-year-old legend was
reporting some of the most relevant human interest stories of our time,
she was struggling with her own personal health issues. In 2010, Walters
had aortic valve replacement surgery that may have saved her life.
Several years ago, after feeling pressure in her chest while climbing a
staircase in Central Park, Walters found herself in a doctor’s office,
hearing that her chances of being alive in two years were 50 percent
unless she had open-heart surgery.
While Walters typically does not talk about her personal life, on The View, she spoke of her surgery to appeal
to women viewers. She used her personal experience and platform to urge women (specifically) to be wary.
"Many women don't go to a doctor and have their heart checked. Men tend to do it before because we think
it's a man's thing, but it's a woman's thing, too," she said on the show.
While Walters has officially retired, she is very active and healthy at 84 years old and recently hosted
“The 10 Most Fascinating People of the Year of 2014.”
Walters’ confessed what was
difficult, “Was deciding how
personal I had to let it be. Even on
The View, I don’t talk about my
personal life.”
5. Important Tests
Doctors can determine your risk for CAD by
checking your blood pressure, cholesterol and
blood glucose, and by finding out more about your
family's history of heart disease. If you are at high
risk or already have symptoms, your doctor can
perform several tests to diagnose CAD included in
the chart below.
Treatment
If you have CAD, there are steps you can take to
lower your risk for having a heart attack or
worsening heart disease. Your doctor may
recommend lifestyle changes such as eating a
healthier diet, exercising and not smoking.
Medications may also be necessary. Medicines
can treat CAD risk factors such as high
cholesterol, high blood pressure, an irregular
heartbeat and low blood flow. In some cases,
more advanced treatments and surgical
procedures can help restore blood flow to the
heart.
Coronary artery disease (CAD) occurs when a
substance called plaque builds up in the arteries that
supply blood to the heart (called coronary arteries).
Plaque is made up of cholesterol deposits, which can
accumulate in your arteries. When this happens, your
arteries can narrow over time. This process is called
atherosclerosis.
Plaque buildup can cause angina, the most common
symptom of CAD. This condition causes chest pain or
discomfort because the heart muscle does not get
enough blood. Over time, CAD can weaken the heart
muscle. This may lead to heart failure, a serious
condition where the heart cannot pump blood the way
that it should. An irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia,
can also develop.
For some people, the first sign of CAD is a heart
attack. A heart attack occurs when plaque totally
blocks an artery carrying blood to the heart. It also
can happen if a plaque deposit breaks off and clots a
coronary artery.
Test What it Does
ECG or EKG
(electrocardiogram)
Measures the electrical activity, rate and regularity of your heartbeat.
Echocardiogram Uses ultrasound to create a picture of the heart.
Exercise Stress Test Measures your heart rate while walking on a treadmill. This helps to
determine how well your heart is pumping blood.
Chest X-Ray Creates a picture of the heart, lungs and other organs in the chest.
Cardiac Catheterization Checks the inside of your arteries for blockage by threading a thin,
flexible tube through an artery in the groin, arm or neck to reach
coronary artery. This test can measure blood pressure and flow in the
heart’s chambers, collect blood samples from the heart or inject dye
into the coronary arteries.
Coronary Angiogram Monitors blockage and flow of blood through the heart. Uses X-rays to
detect dye injected via cardiac catheterization.
6. Top 10
Winter Travel Tips
Whether you are traveling to visit family, hit the
slopes or soak up the sun, you want to feel your
best when you reach your winter travel destination
so that you can enjoy your trip.
Following these healthy travel tips can help make
your winter getaway a success!
Protect little ones from germs.
If you will be traveling with kids this winter, you
need to take steps to reduce germs. Children are
often more susceptible to illnesses, particularly
because they are more likely to touch their faces
after handling objects. Be sure to pack hand
sanitizer or antibacterial wipes and clean your
child’s hands frequently while you are on the go.
For babies, bring along extra pacifiers or teething
toys to have spares on hand if one ends up on the
floor.
Prepare for travel-related illness.
The act of traveling itself can leave you feeling
sick, making it important that you bring along
products to help you combat symptoms. Motion
sickness relief products are a must for any car trip.
Bring along gum to help ease pain or fullness in
the ears due to air travel. Make sure to pack
some over-the-counter pain relievers if you are
heading to the mountains, as altitude changes can
cause headaches.
Ready your car for winter weather.
Traveling to your destination by car? Make sure
that you are prepared for unexpected, severe
winter weather conditions by packing an
emergency kit. Inside, place a first aid kit or basic
first aid supplies, plastic bags, a flashlight with
7. wipes to clean off any surfaces that you may
touch, including the hand rest and any type of tray
table. Before eating while on board, use hand
sanitizer or an antibacterial wipe. Wash your
hands after using the facilities and then follow up
with hand sanitizer or a wipe for extra germ-
fighting power.
Bring along your own
hydration.
Many people become
dehydrated when they
travel. This can lead to
feelings of fatigue,
dizziness and weakness.
Bringing along your own
water can help ensure that
you can stay hydrated
while you are on the go
and when you reach your
destination. If you are
traveling by air, be sure to
keep your bottled water in
your checked baggage
and pick up a small bottle
to bring on the plane once you are through
security.
Pack a few over-the-counter essentials.
Even if you will be staying in an area with plenty of
shopping opportunities, it is wise to bring along
some basic over-the-counter medications in
travel-sized bottles or packets. Having pain
relievers and indigestion relief products already
with you can help you respond to symptoms
quickly and avoid the high prices charged in many
hotels, airports and train and bus stations. If
someone in your family is prone to allergies,
consider bringing an over-the-counter allergy relief
product just in case symptoms strike.
Protect your neck and spine.
Sitting for long periods of time can cause pressure
on the neck and spine that may result in pain and
stiffness. Simply using a back support or a neck
pillow when you are flying or riding can help
provide support and ease discomfort.
extra batteries, easy-to-eat foods like nutrition
bars, bottled water and blankets. These items can
help you and your family stay comfortable until
help arrives or weather conditions improve.
Pick up some pill containers.
If you take prescription
medications or
supplements on a daily
basis, it is important
that you take steps to
ensure that you have a
complete supply while
you are away. A
weekend, week or
two-week pill container
can be pre-packed with
your pills, making it
easy to track what you
have taken.
Keep your immune
system running
strong.
Traveling can lower your resistance and make
you more susceptible to illness, making it
important that you take steps to bolster your
immune system. In the days leading up to your
trip, make sure to eat a well-balanced diet and
take a multivitamin if recommended by your
doctor. Using an immune booster product before
and during your trip can help your body be
prepared to fight any germs that you encounter on
the road.
Do not forget to pack the sun protection.
Sun protection is important in the winter months,
so do not skip packing your broad-spectrum
sunscreen. If you will be skiing or spending time
outdoors, UV-protective sunglasses should also
be worn to protect your eyes from dangerous
glare.
Sanitize your seat.
If you are using any type of shared transportation
such as an airplane, a train or a bus, be sure to
sanitize your seat upon arrival. Use antibacterial
8. Nutrition Facts
Yields: 4 servings
Serving Size: 1 pear half with
1 scoop of frozen yogurt and about
1-1/2 teaspoons of juice.
Calories 176
Total Fat 2 g
Sodium 32 mg
Fiber 4 g
Total Carbs 40 g
Protein 3 g
This recipe has a marvelous chocolaty flavor,
but it is low in fat and super quick to make.
Your family and guests will rave over this
healthy treat.
Ingredients
2 large Bosc pears
2 teaspoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup dried cranberries or dried mixed
fruit
1/4 cup low-fat granola
1/4 cup apple juice
1/2 cup low-fat vanilla frozen yogurt,
divided into 4 small scoops
Preparation
1. Wash and peel pears; cut in half
lengthwise. Use a melon baller or
grapefruit spoon to remove core and
seeds.
2. Place pear halves, with cut sides up, in a
glass pie plate. Combine sugar and
cinnamon; sprinkle evenly over pears.
3. Combine cranberries and granola;
mound into hollows of the pear halves.
Pour the apple juice in and around pear
halves. Cover dish loosely with wax
paper.
4. Cook in microwave on HIGH for 6 to 8
minutes or until the pears are tender
when pierced with a knife. Let stand in
the dish for 5 minutes. Use a large
slotted spoon to transfer the pears to
serving plates.
5. Drizzle juices from pie plate over pears
and serve with low-fat vanilla frozen
yogurt.
Stuffed
Pears
9. Pleasantly sweet and
tart, passion fruit is
packed with plant derived
nutrients. This fruit is
often called “granadilla.”
Superfood of the Month
Health Benefits of Eating
Passion Fruit
Passion fruit is a great source of vitamin
A, C, B2, B3, B6 and folate. The sour
taste of passion fruit is a clue that it is
high in ascorbic acid, also known as
vitamin C, a powerful
water-soluble antioxidant. In one
serving of passion fruit (236g), there is
over 70 milligrams of vitamin C; almost
120 percent of our daily value.
Passion fruit is also particularly high in
vitamin A, playing a key role in helping
you maintain a healthy immune system,
healthy eyes, skin, teeth and bones.
The best way to get vitamin A in your
body is through whole, ripe, fresh fruits
and vegetables. One serving of passion
fruit provides about 60 percent of one’s
daily value of vitamin A.
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 100 g
Calories 97
Total Fat 0.7 g
Sodium 28 mg
Fiber 10.4 g
Total Carbs 23.4 g
Protein 2.2 g
Sugars 11.2 g
10. Type: Strength
Main Muscle Worked: Trapezius (Traps)
Equipment: Dumbbell
Level: Beginner
Lift the dumbbells by elevating the
shoulders as high as possible while you
exhale. Hold the contraction at the top for
one second.
Tip: The arms should remain extended at all times.
Refrain from using the biceps to help lift the dumbbells.
Only the shoulders should be moving up and down.
Lower the dumbbells back to the original position.
Repeat for 2 sets of 5.
Exercise
of the
Month
Dumbbell Shrug
1
Stand erect with a dumbbell
in each hand (palms facing
your torso), arms extended
down the sides.
You should consult with your personal physician before starting any exercise routine.
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3
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Not That...Eat This...
Herbs and Spices versus Salt
Herbs and spices make great salt substitutes. Using less table salt and salt in cooking may help lower blood
pressure and reduce your risk for heart disease. To avoid salt without sacrificing flavor, experiment by making
your own seasoning blends.
Sample Spice Recipe — Chinese five-spice blend for chicken, fish or pork — Combine 1/4 cup ground ginger,
2 tablespoons of ground cinnamon, 2 teaspoons of ground cloves and 1 tablespoon each of ground allspice
and anise seed.