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	<title>Workplace Wellness Matters</title>
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	<description>Toward a healthy and productive workplace</description>
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		<title>Practicing calm, slowly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a writer&#8217;s joke that goes like this: I didn&#8217;t have time to write it short, so I wrote it long. Writing is a process of refining what you want to say, and cutting out the excess. This often takes many revisions. In the same way, exercising quickly is far less demanding than if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workplacewellnessmatters.com/2010/07/21/practicing-calm/</link>
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		<title>What American employers don&#8217;t know—yet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Workplace-wellness programs, rightly, place a lot of emphasis on diet and exercise. What do most programs miss from their exercise plans? Answer, fun, focus, and accomplishment. It&#8217;s common for employers to negotiate gym memberships for employees. I&#8217;ve been a beneficiary of these programs.  I&#8217;ve lumbered on the treadmill for what seems like eternity. I&#8217;ve swum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workplacewellnessmatters.com/2010/04/16/what-american-employers-dont-know-yet/</link>
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		<title>Dramatic rise in workplace suicides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How bad does it have to get before workplace wellness programs get taken seriously? There is much public debate in France about unhappiness in the workplace, much of it centered on the dramatic rise in workplace suicides.  According to a recent Economist article, at France Telecom 24 people have killed themselves since 2008. One man [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workplacewellnessmatters.com/2009/10/22/more-workplace-suicides/</link>
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		<title>Let’s make it easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of us have lofty goals, not just for us, but for our employees. We will eat less. We will exercise more. We start out with great enthusiasm. We imagine our future selves as energetic, alert, and able to cope with the everyday stresses the workplace brings. We have little trouble knowing what to do. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workplacewellnessmatters.com/2009/09/21/let%e2%80%99s-make-it-easy/</link>
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		<title>Is your computer hurting you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You get involved in a task. The next thing you know, your back hurts and your wrists ache. We forget we have bodies. The problem is we tend to live in our heads. In fact, the only time most of us notice our bodies is when they hurt. It doesn’t have to be this way. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workplacewellnessmatters.com/2009/08/12/it%e2%80%99s-your-computer-hurting-you/</link>
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		<title>Who cares about workplace wellness?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should employers cut workplace-wellness programs during the current economic downturn? Clearly some employers are axing programs, according to Laura Pickering, executive director of the New York Business Group on Health. Under stress most organisms revert to type. In business, this means short-term thinking. The hunkered-down defensive position is about survival. Anything that looks like a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workplacewellnessmatters.com/2009/07/07/109/</link>
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		<title>The elephant in the room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Free workplace wellness method boosts productivity and employee well-being]]></description>
		<link>http://workplacewellnessmatters.com/2009/05/24/the-elephant-in-the-room/</link>
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		<title>Workplace Wellness in Hawaii</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to an article in the Pacific Business News, employees of Starwood Hotels and Resorts in Hawaii are offered some pretty nice incentives to stay healthy. One hundred dollars to participate in risk assessment and biometric screenings. Employees get a further $100 for losing ten pounds or enrolling in stress-management classes. You would think it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workplacewellnessmatters.com/2009/05/06/workplace-wellness-in-hawaii/</link>
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		<title>Stress management, the old way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Qigong (pronounced chee gung, and sometimes written Chi-Kung) has been around for a while. Well, thousands of years in one form or another. One branch  became Tai Chi, a martial art. However, Shibashi qigong is relatively new, and its origin in this form is ascribed to two Chinese doctors in the 1970&#8242;s. Shibashi qigong is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workplacewellnessmatters.com/2009/05/02/stress-management-the-old-way/</link>
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		<title>Leadership by example</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn&#8217;t it make sense if leaders in the workplace wellness domain led by example? It would be encouraging to see leaders show their commitment to disciplined personal fitness, diet, and rest. Few of us work as hard, or have the dynamism and drive of President Obama. Yet even with such a demanding job he watches [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://workplacewellnessmatters.com/2009/04/14/leadership-by-example/</link>
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