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Healthy living 38 results total, viewing 1 - 20 PBN seeks Healthy Workplace stories July 23, 2009 Do you have an exercise, training, insurance or educational program at your workplace designed to keep employees healthy and on the job? If so, Providence Business news would like to hear from you by Friday, July 24. more IT gives boost to efforts in workplace wellness Nov 22, 2008 Rajiv Kumar has become a familiar face across Rhode Island because of his Shape Up RI project, which made fitness a community affair, drawing friends and co-workers into teams that competed and shared their achievements. more R.I. announces top Wellness Innovation winners Oct 28, 2008 PROVIDENCE – The second annual Governor’s Awards for Wellness Innovation will be presented tomorrow to five community, work-site and educational organizations across Rhode Island. Another 11 organizations will receive honorable mentions at the State Room ceremony, Gov. Donald L. Carcieri’s office said today. more R.I. restaurants can lead the way to healthier eating March 29, 2008 Obesity has replaced smoking as the biggest health issue in the United States. In the past, when overweight adults were the only ones contributing to the fat epidemic, few people noticed. But once the press started reporting on obese children and how their numbers have tripled since 1980, and how they were becoming more likely to develop obesity-related diabetes, the focus was on food – especially the wrong kind. more Custom workouts for body and mind March 15, 2008 “Believe in yourself. You must do that which you think you cannot.” Eleanor Roosevelt’s inspirational words are found on a photo of New York City marathoners prominently displayed at Fitness Together, a personal training studio at 145 Elmgrove Ave., on Providence’s East Side, where owner Lisa D. Helfrich, at left, offers one-on-one training tailored to each client’s needs. more HealthPact initiative slow to catch on Feb 23, 2008 The HealthPact plans unveiled last summer by R.I. Health Insurance Commissioner Christopher F. Koller’s, took an approach to keeping premiums low that had never been tried before in this market. The plans, nearly two years in the development, are designed to not only make small-group health insurance more affordable, but also help hold down costs in the long run. more $1M donated by alumnus for URI wellness center Feb 9, 2008 KINGSTON – Students at the University of Rhode Island are closer to getting a state-of-the-art workout facility, thanks in large part to a generous alumnus. more Nonprofit aims to make R.I. a model for weight loss Dec 22, 2007 Rhode Islanders have been losing the “battle of the bulge” for years, but the nonprofit program that has garnered a lot of attention by getting thousands of people to improve their activity levels is looking to make the smallest state a model for reversing the national weight-gain trend. more Lynch, Children’s Health Forum announce $1.2M in lead-poisoning grants Dec 18, 2007 PROVIDENCE – Six local agencies will receive $1.2 million to help eliminate childhood lead poisoning across Rhode Island. The grants were announced by R.I. Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch and Kurt L. Schmoke, left, of the Washington, D.C.-based Children’s Health Forum. more Six startups given R.I. innovation credit Dec 1, 2007 In 2005, Rajiv Kumar – shown with lawyer Margaret Farrell – founded a company to market a team-based, employee-wellness program based on the model and software platform he had pioneered with his nonprofit Shape Up Rhode Island. On Nov. 26, his new company, Providence Health Solutions LLC, was among six businesses approved to receive the state’s new innovation tax credit. more Doctors’ offices making the mind-body connection Dec 1, 2007 Dr. Ellen Hight knows how much healthier many of her patients could be if only they changed their behavior: if they quit smoking, ate better, exercised, got more rest – even if they took their medications more dutifully. more Brown works with employers to ID best in wellness Nov 24, 2007 So maybe you have started a Weight Watchers program at the office, or a lunchtime walking group. Perhaps an expert has come in to talk about stress management, or about nutrition. Maybe the candy vending machine has been replaced with a fruit basket. more Experts to discuss ways to control health costs Nov 17, 2007 PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Business Group on Health is hosting a meeting Dec. 7 with two experts in wellness and chronic disease management: Dr. Barry Bunting, clinical manager in the Pharmacy Department at Mission Health and Hospitals of North Carolina, and Dr. Jan Berger, senior vice president and chief clinical officer at CVS/Caremark Corp. more Innovating in health and wellness Nov 10, 2007 After struggling back from founder Jeffrey M. Jacober’s death in 2005, Providence consumer products development company MEDport LLC is on a roll, with two new product lines being sold by major nationwide retailers. Posing with some of the health and wellness products MEDPort has developed are Product Development VP Chuck Miga, left, and President and CEO Larry Wesson. more Awards recognize creativity, ingenuity in wellness Nov 3, 2007 Science makes great strides every year, but the truth is, when it comes to staying healthy, we’ve known the basics for a long time: eat in moderation, and include plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables in your diet; get some exercise; try to reduce stress; don’t smoke. It’s all so obvious, and yet most of us don’t follow those simple guidelines – and ultimately, we pay for it with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, orthopedic problems and much more, and the economy pays for it as our medical bills pile up. more Psychology for healthier workers Nov 3, 2007 Harry Sobel, far left, and Michael Raciti say they found it easy to transition from being academic psychologists at Brown University to entrepreneurs with their own employee assistance program firm. more Broker takes wellness effort out of insurers’ hands Oct 29, 2007 It’s difficult enough to get workers to participate in wellness programs, given human nature, privacy concerns, and people’s harried lives. But for an employer trying to keep insurance costs down, there’s one more challenge, broker Joel Cooper says. What if you sign up for, say, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island’s Good Health Benefit and start to make some headway, then the renewal rates come in much higher than what UnitedHealthcare of New England is offering? Do you start from scratch with United, hoping the rates won’t shift again next year, or stay with BCBSRI for the sake of continuity? more 3 R.I. school districts honored for wellness efforts Oct 5, 2007 Three school districts were honored yesterday at the Rhode Island Healthy Schools Coalition’s fifth annual breakfast for local education leaders, held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick. Narragansett took home the coalition’s 2007 Award of Honor, while schools in Central Falls and South Kingstown received Expanding Breakfast Awards from the New England Dairy and Food Council. more A creepy, crawly way to aid science Sept 23, 2007 Sarah Smith sat calmly for two afternoons as dozens of deer ticks crawled up her legs and arms and burrowed their tiny heads under her skin. A graduate student studying marine affairs at the University of Rhode Island, she was one of 15 subjects in a research trial Sept. 6 and 7 that examined the effectiveness of tick repellents sprayed onto clothing rather than directly onto the skin. more Nationwide puts itself on the side of workers Sept 1, 2007 One of the surest signs that an employer is doing something right is long-tenured employees, so Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. must be on the right path. more Page 1 / 2 Next > Last >>