The healthy desk jockey blog

[Your Heart]

It beats about 115,000 times a day; it pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood every day; it’s about the size of your fist; and it can continue beating even when it’s disconnected from the bo...

A panel at the Global Wellness Summit brought together top journalists and future-forecasters to predict the big wellness trends of 2021. (1)

Here are three trends they determined would gain serious ...

In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, organizations have had to quickly turn to remote work as a necessary step to continue their operations. Prior to this, only 3.6% of the workforce worked from h...

We miss our gyms. Our hikes. Our workout tribe. But keeping yourself healthy with regular excise has never been more important for our health, our immunity and our sanity. Yet finding the motivation t...

Ready to add more Micro-wellness steps to your growing healthy lifestyle?

The guidelines are simple:

• Something you care about.
• Something you can do in under 2 minutes.
• Something too small to fai
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Did YOU know?

The average hand-washing time is 6 seconds, less than half of what is recommended? And only 5% of us regularly wash long and thoroughly enough. 

Time to stop hand spritzing and start h...

It’s March.

How are those 2020 wellness resolutions coming along?

Are you making it to the gym 5 days a week?

Are February’s vegetables decomposing into a green slime in your refrigerator drawer?

The Centers for Disease Control supports research advocating the use of work breaks to increase productivity. Researchers explain that strategically disengaging during the day, particularly when we ar...

If your work-life is sedentary—whether you’ve been inactive for a while or you’re a FITness fanatic—consider making 2020 your year to MOVE MORE during your work day.

In consideration of recent resear...

Be-aware of the Difference Between Corporate and Traditional Yoga Classes

The number of employers offering Yoga classes at work has doubled within the past several years (1,2). And it’s no wonder. Yo...