Great workplace wellness results have just been published demonstrating the positive, 1-year impact of a program that our group developed with Merck Canada.This represents the most impressive study to date in a Canadian setting. Results for the second year have already been submitted for publication.Check out the...
Employee wellness programs in the workplace have been shown to work with some success in the United States, particularly when participation is tied to substantial incentives like a reduction in health insurance premiums for participating employees. In Canada, as a result of the publicly funded health care system, incentives...
We congratulate the team at Merck Canada for being recognized by the National Business Group on Health in the USA for the development of the “LIVE IT” program in Canada to support employee wellness.Only three companies outside of the USA received an award and Merck Canada was the only...
As part of our commitment to build on Canadian employers’ experience and knowledge base around employee engagement, we will be launching a 6-week nVIGORus exercise challenge specifically adapted for conference attendees.If you missed our September 25th webinar describing the challenge, we invite you to watch the replay below:
We can plump up our wrinkles and dye our greys, but on the inside, our hearts have their own age. Are those arteries smooth and limber, or hardened with waxy plaque? Spending five minutes at MyHealthCheckup.com can shed light on whether you have a youthful ticker or a pension-aged...
The Canadian Medical Association and their subsidiary, Joule, today announced a new collaboration with our team in support of our evidence-based health promotion programs for use by employees, physicians, and their patients. nVIGORus.com and myhealthcheckup.com are based on over twenty years of patient experience at the McGill Comprehensive Health...
When you’re thinking about loading up on that second helping of apple pie, you might want to remember the results of a just-released study from McGill University. It showed that obesity can reduce your lifespan by eight years. The study examined the records of 3,993 people logged in a...
Being severely obese can knock up to eight years off your life and cause decades of ill health, a report says.The analysis showed being obese at a young age was more damaging to health and life expectancy.The team, at McGill University in Canada, said heart problems and...
Dr. Bärbel Knäuper is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at McGill University, and is heading a study on achieving and maintaining a healthy weight.And the good news is, she is looking for volunteers to be a part of it. And even better news is, it’s...