Creating healthy workplaces: top tips

We like to keep you up to date with the latest research from the world of wellbeing so that you can share this with your colleagues or use it to help you design the most effective corporate wellness programme.

Clock up the miles in the urban jungle
City dwellers and office workers often bemoan the lack of varied walking terrain.  But access to lots of parks or open spaces  doesn't necessarily mean you walk more often.  An Australian study found that those who don't have much parkland nearby cover up to 35% more ground by foot.

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Men's Running: www.mensrunninguk.co.uk

Women's Running: www.womensrunninguk.co.uk

Women's Walking: www.womenswalking.co.uk

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Creating healthy workplaces: top tips

We like to keep you up to date with the latest research from the world of wellbeing so that you can share this with your colleagues or use it to help you design the most effective corporate wellness programme.

Keep the Doctor away and your heart in great shape

Eating an apple a day could keep your heart healthy.  A study of healthy, middle-aged adults at Ohio State University found that munching one apple a day for four weeks lowered blood levels of a substance linked to hardening of the arteries by 40%

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Men's Running: www.mensrunninguk.co.uk

Women's Running: www.womensrunninguk.co.uk

Women's Walking: www.womenswalking.co.uk

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Stress today hurts ‘Velcro people’ years later

Here's an interesting article reinforcing that the decisions we make today and the behaviour patterns we follow can have long-term implications for our wellbeing - positive or negative.

Stress today hurts 'velcro people' years later.

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Creating healthy workplaces: top tips

We like to keep you up to date with the latest research from the world of wellbeing so that you can share this with your colleagues or use it to help you design the most effective corporate wellness programme.

Why pushing yourself really is worth it
A regular fast walk or run could cut the risk of heart disease by as much as 50%, whereas an hour's plod makes little difference, Danish scientists report.  Results of a study of more than 10,000 adults indicated it's the intensity, rather than the duration, of the exercise that counts in combating risk factors including midriff bulge, high blood pressure, insulin resistance, higher than normal levels of blood glucose and abnormal blood fat levels.

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Men's Running: www.mensrunninguk.co.uk

Women's Running: www.womensrunninguk.co.uk

Women's Walking: www.womenswalking.co.uk

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Creating Healthy Workplaces: Top Tips

We like to keep you up to date with the latest research from the world of wellbeing so that you can share this with your colleagues or use it to help you design the most effective corporate wellness programme.

Walk more, sneeze less

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School found that people who walked every day had 25% fewer colds than those who were sedentary.

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Men's Running: www.mensrunninguk.co.uk

Women's Running: www.womensrunninguk.co.uk

Women's Walking: www.womenswalking.co.uk

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