As health care costs continue to rise and our nation becomes increasingly more unhealthy, employers will be changing some of the ways that they hire new personnel. Many companies will start looking for individuals who not only fit all the requirements of the job, but also maintain a healthy lifestyle and have done so for many years. Individuals who smoke, binge drink, and fail to eat properly will soon have these things counted against them when competing for a job in this economy. As we move towards a universal health care plan for all, the cost to employers and employees is going to increase … [Read more...] about Binge drinking in college may pose serious health risks later in life

  Regular exercise may counteract some of the brain-damaging effects of drinking alcohol, early results from a new study suggest. In the study, heavy drinking was linked with damage to the brain's white matter, but only among those who didn't exercise very much. For those who exercised regularly, there was no link between heavy drinking and white-matter damage. White matter forms "cables" in the brain that allow different areas to communicate. Because of the damage to drinkers' brains in the study, "white matter is not moving messages between areas of the brain as efficiently as … [Read more...] about How Exercise May Offset Some of Alcohol’s Damage?

We often spend countless hours at our jobs, some of us standing, some of us sitting for 7 to 10 hours per day. If you take the bare minimum of 7 hours of sitting per day and multiply it for the year, it equates to about 2, 520 hours that you are sitting in a day's time. This is a significant amount of time that we are inactive throughout our entire life. It is no wonder that as Americans, our obesity numbers continue to rise because of lack of activity and high stress levels. Several products have entered the marketplace to help combat our exponentially increasing health care costs. There are … [Read more...] about Sit Up Straight. Your Back Thanks You.