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Holistic Health in the Workplace

Americans, once among the healthiest people on the planet, today enjoy levels of health barely above that of some third-world nations. Yet we pay a much greater percentage of our GNP for healthcare than any other advanced industrialized society.

It would appear that we may have reached a point of diminishing returns in our relationship with conventional medical care. We pay more, yet receive less.

Every enrollment season brings increased costs to your business, more cost-shifting to your employees, and reduced medical benefits.

What, then, is there to be done about this situation?

Natural Stresscare: Empowering employees with the tools they need to heal themselves.

Stress impairs focus, concentration and productivity. It limits your employees’ ability to communicate in an open and honest way. It can damage relationships with customers and clients as well as with co-workers, creating an unhealthy work environment and undermining your company’s competitive position.

Stress increases your costs in yet another way. Under normal conditions human bodies work constantly to identify worn out cells and tissues, break them down, get rid of the waste and then rebuild new cells and tissues in their place. We get entirely new skin roughly every seven weeks ... new bones every ten years or so. This process is one of the differences between the living and the dead.

But stress hormones shut these vital body-refreshing processes down. This is visible when someone goes through a time of extreme emotional trauma. It's possible to age decades in just a few months if serious stress is left unchecked. This is also why high levels of stress are associated not only with lowered productivity at work, but also a higher rate of injuries.

Stress also robs us of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients crucial to the body. The lack of those same nutrients then adds to the stress! Well-nourished minds are healthy minds and manage stress better. Information is the key here. Understanding what nutrients do for the body helps us feel their effects. Healthy habits then become self-reinforcing.

Yet nutrition is only one of the stress-reducing, health-promoting tools we can train your employees to use. Employees have a long menu of choices when it comes to natural ways to reduce stress. Find out more here. Empowering your employees with the tools of holistic health is a great way to soften the annual blow of reduced health benefits and higher co-pays.

Building a healthier workforce means:

fewer sick days taken
reduced on-the-job injuries, particularly repetitive motion injuries
more productive and motivated employees
improved working environment
increased retention of valued employees

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