Food and Fitness Fundamentals Nutrition Labels: The inside story Many of you probably already glance at food labels, whether it’s scoping out calories, fat or sodium. This resource of information provided on most packaged food products can be a very powerful tool to help ensure that you are consuming a healthy and well balanced diet. […]
Quiting Tobacco
As The Corvallis Clinic prepares to go tobacco-free on May 31, I’d like to share a letter from a person who struggled with quitting smoking, but succeeded, and has been free of tobacco for eight years. She wrote this letter to her cigarettes: Dear Salem 100 (my lifelong affair) and American Spirit (my 20 one […]
Promoting a Healthy Workplace
People spend most of their awake hours on the job. So, the workplace culture has a strong impact on an employee’s health and well being. When employers offer programs to support employee wellness, they report substantial positive results Here are some other ways to promote a healthy workplace: Encourage employees to be more active each […]