Wellness Voice

I have to create an outline for my research course. im kinda not understanding

Workplace health and Wellness

1. Healthy environment – safety issues, equipment shields, good practices, hazardous substances. Knowledge of postural dangers

2. Healthy attitudes – employees ‘owning’ the safe workplace and producing safe behaviors; thinking about and improving procedures.

3. Environment producing happy people. Good employer behaviors, rewards for successes, feeling of ‘belonging to family’. Provision of benefits – creche for mothers, health insurances,

I know Wellness is alot richer but she was fine with Kirkland but I was concerned with the beet pulp being dangerous to get colitis. What is your opinion?
Yes I put alittle of the Wellness and much more of her other food. Unfortunately she picked out the new and left the old. So now what do i do?
I guess I should keep it lite with the new and eventually she will eat the kirkland and the new slowly when she is hungry

Did you make the change very gradual – over 10 – 14 days? If not, that would be the reason.

But if you made a gradual change, perhaps your beagle just doesn’t tolerate Wellness for whatever reason. I tried switching my greyhounds to it a couple of years ago (and I did it very slowly) and none of them tolerated it. So I changed them to Innova and they did great on that one. Some dogs just don’t do well on a particular food even if it’s a good one. You might need to try something else.

I dont have it, but I really am wondering, whats the big deal. other than being contagious, is what people freak out about, it goes away. whats the biggest problem with having it?? Is it more of a cosmetic issue, or is it really a medical problem??

It is a cosmetic problem. Some people get bad outbreaks – on mouth as well as genitals – which can be sore, but they don’t harm you at all and have no effect on your health. Mine are so tiny and minor they are hardly visible, and don’t hurt at all. The same goes for a lot of people. In fact, 80% of people infected don’t even get recogniseable symptoms.

Until the last few years, no one cared at all about cold sores (oral herpes): they were just something that everyone got occasionally. It is only now, in our health-obssessed times, when people have started to care about them. Genital herpes has an unfair stigma attached to it which it doesn’t deserve – it is only a minor skin infection.

Women who catch genital herpes in the last three months of pregnancy can pass it to their babies during birth – neonatoal herpes, which is dangerous for the baby. But it is rare, and in these times, completely and totally preventable.

I already know the importance of canned food which I feed just want to know about this particular food.

I don’t, but I’ve reviewed it in the past and I’m not crazy about it. Although Wellness does make good foods, this isn’t one of their better offerings. Core is much better.

But if this one is more affordable than Core and you want to stay in the same price range(ish), then I would point you to Natural Balance duck & green pea. It’s a fairly decent dry food and it’s not as expensive as some of the others.

My top 3 picks for dry foods are grainless – Evo, Core and Nature’s Variety Instincts.

I need a good name for my massage business. I am opening an office with about 5 rooms and will have employees. For the first couple of months it will stickly be massage but in the future i will do stuff like waxing, yoga, facials, and possibly nails. And maybe other services.(non sexual)
The problem is that i dont want to include the word spa because it will not be a spa. I also want it to be 100% Professional name, no cutesy names.So I am using my last name in it and just need a good ending that leaves the door open for other services down the road.
So its gonna be something like "loughner massage and…." Thought of "Loughner massage and Wellness" but sounds like alot of other businesses around here.
I dont want to use my first name because it is a woman’s name and sounds pretty young and i dont want people to come because of that reason.
I just need something that explains that there is also other things besides massage offered.
I already have the tag line "ultimate therapeutic experience" and that is because i wanted the word therapeutic in it to discourage perverts.
Any suggestions would be appreciated except sexual ones.

"Loughner’s Massage therapy"
"Loughner’s Massage and Well being"
"Loughner’s Massage’s and fitness"

idk, i kinda like the massage and wellness though, good luck

I am getting a bachelors degree in community health and Wellness in may 09. Does anyone know of any jobs I can apply for in Chicago or any wellness centers in chicago?

Thank you!

Talk to the people you interned with. That is a very specific degree. I do it as a part time job but I am a health care worker who can do glucose testing, spiromtery, cholesterol testing, exercise testing. Without a medical license, where I live it would be difficult to get a job.

Try a hospital

I need a good name for my massage business. I am opening an office with about 5 rooms and will have employees. For the first couple of months it will stickly be massage but in the future i will do stuff like waxing, yoga, facials, and possibly nails. And maybe other services.(non sexual)
The problem is that i dont want to include the word spa because it will not be a spa. I also want it to be 100% Professional name, no cutesy names.So I am using my last name in it and just need a good ending that leaves the door open for other services down the road.
So its gonna be something like "loughner massage and…." Thought of "Loughner massage and Wellness" but sounds like alot of other businesses around here.
I dont want to use my first name because it is a woman’s name and sounds pretty young and i dont want people to come because of that reason.
I just need something that explains that there is also other things besides massage offered.
I already have the tag line "ultimate therapeutic experience" and that is because i wanted the word therapeutic in it to discourage perverts.
Any suggestions would be appreciated except sexual ones

Therapeutic Massage and Wellness Center!

I have been a customer and am trying to do Melaleuca as a home business. Just wanting some feedback from others that have done the business.

Breaking into the business can be really tough as explaining the non-toxic products are not of much concern to the masses. If one , like myself HAS to have just products in their home due to health reasons then that is a different story. If I had it to do all over from the beginning, I would have approached it very differently. I would have merely asked if one was willing to invest approx $75.00 every month into growing a home business? Make the purchases monthly, give away all the products if you so incline( children’s homes or others) claim the $75.00 in products as advertising samples and look for others who wanted to follow me!

Just my 2 cents and by the way…

I have been buying the products for 10 years now and not only have to have them but love the fact that I no longer have to clean my home with vinegar and water try that smell daily for moping, cleaning the bathroom ,etc BIG YUCK!

Corporate health and fitness has been extremely prominent in the United States and in European countries over the past ten years. Studies have shown that health and Wellness programmes are an investment in human resources and productivity.
The strong correlation between good health and performance highlights the need for organisations to better manage the health of their staff. Wellness programmes provide a systematic approach to managing health by incorporating education, guidance and training.

Why a Worksite Wellness Program
Facts
* Our country spends 95% of our health care dollars, one trillion dollars a year, on diagnosing and treating many diseases. However, half of all deaths in the United States can be prevented.
* People with many health risks (e.g., obesity, cigarette smoking, and high blood pressure) tend to be less productive than those who are in better health.
* Johnson and Johnson’s results from a new Worksite Wellness Program showed that 80% of participants said they could better handle stress and 81% stated that they increased their productivity at work as a result of the program.
* A study showed that employees with no risk factors paid about $190 a year on medical expenses. Those who had one risk factor paid $360 a year. Persons with 2-3 risk factors paid about $542 a year and those with 4-5 risk factors paid $718 a year in medical expenses.
* Another study showed that not being physically active costs an employer $1900 annually. Employers must pay for a decrease in productivity as well as higher costs for health insurance disability and being absent from work.

Hi, I worked in as a receptionist in a Wellness center for 2 years and now I have decided I would like to pursue massage therapy as a career. I am very excited about this and plan on starting the 500 hour class this November. I have a few questions for those of you who are either in the program or have already been licensed.

I know this is a pretty relative thing but how difficult are the classes? Will working a full time job and going to class 3 nights a week be too much? I have pretty good "study skills" and organization skills but I’ve been out of school for 3 years and worry that I won’t be able to keep up, was this a concern for any of you? How did you ration your time? Do you have to work in a Massage Envy or one of those fast food clinics before you can start your own practice? Do people often ask for energy work?

Did anyone graduate in Texas? Also, I have been denied a loan through Sallie Mae, how else can I get a loan for school (I am not eligible for getting money through filling out the fafsa bc massage schools do not accept that kind of thing).

Also, what are the best products (tables, bolsters, lotions, spa treatment products, etc)

I am very serious about making this my priority and I will not be swayed just because I won’t be making great money. I don’t really care about that.

Please let me in on your experiences!

The most difficult part is anatomy and physiology, and learning all the diseases and conditions that are contraindications for massage. But if you commit enough time to studying and learning the material, it won’t be impossible.

I went to school three nights a week for a year. It got a little bit overwhelming near the end, mostly because I worked too hard and was putting in 18 hour days including school and that was a drain. But I made it.

Three years out of school is not that long. Many of the therapists I went through school with were in their 30s and 40s and making a career change with it. They’d been out of school for 10 or 20 years, and some even more than that.

You don’t "have" to work anywhere; massage jobs don’t seem to be in that short of supply, so if you don’t want the job, don’t apply for it. Get lots of clinical experience, way beyond whatever hours are required, and you can have any job you want when you graduate. I really don’t feel that the 50 clinical hours I had to have were sufficient, and I probably put in about 200-250 hours in the school clinic before I graduated. It paid off. I landed a coveted job at a well-known local spa within a month of becoming certified. I’m a darn good therapist if I say so myself; even other therapists are surprised to learn how "green" I actually am after I work on them.

As for people wanting energy work, it depends on where you go. The owner of my spa is completely afraid of it and so no one uses it here, and no one asks for it. But when I was working through the school, I used it quite often because the people who came knew about it and were open to it.

Talk to the admissions people at the school you’re looking to go to. They will often have suggestions for how to finance your education. My school offered a work-study option and also worked with a local grant organization focused on improving the local workforce, accepted the GI Bill, and if none of those options worked, they could still work something out on an individual basis. And I’ll tell you from experience, you don’t want to work with Sallie Mae anyway. They suck. They lose stuff, they make mistakes, their customer service bites, and they take forever to get anything done.

As far as products, you will develop your personal preferences as you go along, based on what you want to do with your massage and what your personal style ends up being like.

Other than that, I think it’s a great job. I’ve loved it since the beginning. Either you’ll take to it like a fish in water or it just won’t be right for you. And if not, that’s ok; keep looking and you’ll find your niche. If you want to help people and you understand the importance and healing power of touch, you’ll be great.