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New Employee Assistance Program, SupportLinc, Available March 1st.
The Total Rewards team is excited to announce our new partnership with SupportLinc. SupportLinc offers emotional well-being and work-life balance resources for you and your family, as well as expert guidance to help and resolve everyday issues. SupportLinc offers:...
Stress and Physical Health
Stress raises certain hormones, such as cortisol and adrenaline. In the short term, this can be helpful, triggering the “fight or flight” response that helps you deal with immediate threats. Over time, however, chronic stress could increase your risk for a slew of...
Are you Drinking Enough Water?
Proper hydration is necessary for good health. Water is part of every cell, organ and fluid in our bodies. While our hydration needs can be met through other beverages and food with high water content such as fruits and vegetables, drinking water provides a...
Pumpkin Waffles
Whole wheat waffles have more fiber and vitamin A than their Belgian cousins. Top them with some fresh fruit instead of high-calorie syrup for a healthy way to start your day. Per Serving: Calories: 302 Fat: 13g Saturated Fat: 2g...
Weight Loss Challenges and Tips
Men and women were created equal, but they are different. Especially when it comes to weight loss. Women face some unique challenges in getting the bathroom scale to budge. And these challenges are both medical and emotional in nature. So whether you're trying to lose...
15-day Movement Challenge
Here’s a way to get going and keep going. Take on WW’s (Weight Watchers® Reimagined) 15-Day Movement Challenge, which gradually adds skills along the way to help you meet strength, aerobic, and flexibility goals at the end of the Challenge. But you don’t have to go it...
How to Stay Active During the Holidays
The holidays can be stressful—and it’s easy to overindulge in holiday treats—so regular exercise, along with your relaxation techniques, is especially important to keep you feeling healthy and balanced during the holidays. Taking off a day or two isn’t a problem,...
Get Spicy This Holiday Season
Ho! Ho! … Oh! No! ‘Tis the season -- for packing on extra weight. Research suggests that holiday weight gain, year after year, can be a big reason the number on your bathroom scale continues to go up, up, up. Most people put on a pound or two (or three) this time...
Understanding Gestational Diabetes
Gestational diabetes can be a scary diagnosis, but like other forms of diabetes, it’s one that you can manager. It doesn’t mean that you had diabetes before you conceived or that you will have diabetes after you give birth. It means that, by working with your doctor,...
How to Be More Validating
Validation starts with the self. To address this, you must understand your internal experience as well as your actions and behaviors. People often fight how they feel, judging themselves about how they experience situations and events. Sometimes a person prefers...