"In our study, a brisk one-hour daily walk reduced the genetic influence towards obesity, measured by differences in BMI by half,” said said Qibin Qi, Ph.D., study author and a post doctorate research fellow in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.
The 10-year contract with Capita plc makes it the first fire brigade in Britain to outsource its emergency call handling.
Calling it a new wellness and behavioral health benefit, the insurer says the games, videos, and trackers will improve stress management, memory, and attention.
Smoking and obesity place a growing strain on an already stretched health care system. Employers are evaluating wellness programs—such as quit-smoking and fitness programs—in an attempt to lower costs by reducing health risk factors.
Between 2000 and 2050, the proportion of the world's population over 60 years will double from about 11 percent to 22 percent.
Aetna and the Aetna Foundation awarded $750,000 in grants for three studies, including one analyzing the communication between home health nurses and physicians caring for recently hospitalized Medicare patients with congestive heart failure.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said it is "a great achievement for the people of the world" and one of the first Millennium Development Goal targets to be achieved.
Of those that listed an excuse for not following through with healthy habits, the most common culprit is said to be a lack of time.
With a total circulation of 8 million members, "Healthy Living Made Simple" might be able to help them reduce their health care costs, as a Sam’s Club executive predicts.
Health professionals need to help raise awareness about the health risks of using an unclean cell phone.
A judge granted preliminary approval to a settlement involving activities done 40-60 years ago at the company's former plant in the West Virginia city, an industrialized suburb of the state capital, Charleston.
The Work and Health Initiative program improved depressive symptoms along with a number of work-related outcomes, including increased productivity and fewer missed work days.
The president of the Fair Labor Association, a nonprofit the manufacturer joined a month ago as its first technology company member, began the first "special voluntary audit" at Foxconn City in Shenzhen on Feb. 13.
The most common sources of sodium include breads and rolls, luncheon meat such as deli ham or turkey, pizza, and poultry.
Enabling users to track their weight, eating, and activity by making daily entries, it could be very useful to the general public and may indirectly help employers.
The head of the PBGC, John Gotbaum, said the airline must show that terminating its pension plans is the only way it can reorganize.
The agency has published its newest research on retired players in the American Journal of Cardiology just ahead of Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis.
The human body responds best to a balance between static and dynamic activity, between activity and recovery, between sitting and standing.
“Our findings indicate that physicians with normal BMI more frequently reported discussing weight loss with patients than overweight or obese physicians," said Sara Bleich, Ph.D., lead author of the study.
A paper by four employees from the National Center for Health Statistics reports the 2009-2010 prevalence was 35.5 percent among adult men and 35.8 percent among adult women, with no significant change recently.