Word: yoga
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...Companies prefer action rather than reaction," says Dallas Salisbury, CEO of the Employee Benefit Research Institute. "They're using more and more triggers, bribes, gimmicks and penalties to promote wellness offerings." Two-thirds provide such benefits. Some hand out pedometers to encourage workers to walk more. Others help with yoga instruction, massage and meditation. And many extend insurance discounts for employees who take smoking-cessation classes...
...year-old male, mostly vegetarian, a non-smoker and only a social drinker. Both my parents, prior to their reaching age 40, suffered from heart ailments and diabetes. I have been practicing yoga and taking a brisk walk five times a week for the past three decades. A few months back, my yearly checkup showed an abnormal stress test [result]. Angiography indicated multiple blocks in my blood vessels, some of them major. The next step was to have heart-bypass surgery. I was shocked and asked my cardiologist how that could happen after I had been taking so much care...
...hear great music and hold someone in your arms. Vera Lee Newton, Massachusetts, U.S. I am a 56-year-old male, mostly vegetarian, a nonsmoker and only a social drinker. Both my parents, prior to their reaching age 40, suffered from heart ailments and diabetes. I have been practicing yoga and taking a brisk walk five times a week for the past three decades. A few months back, my yearly checkup showed an abnormal stress test. Angiography indicated multiple blocks in my blood vessels, some of them major. The next step was to have heart-bypass surgery. I was shocked...
Donna Smith, 41, of Springfield, Pa., acknowledges that her eating disorder sprang from a need to rein in her sometimes out-of-control life. Smith, a bookkeeper and part-time yoga instructor, had struggled with bulimia as a teenager and resorted to it occasionally as an adult. But the disorder returned with a vengeance three years ago when her estranged father resurfaced after a 20-year absence, then died. Smith coped by resuming her old self-destructive ways. By the summer of 2003, she carried less than 100 lbs. on her 5-ft. 3-in. frame. Only after...
...original campsite. Camp Reality, manned by vocal pro-Bush supporters, sits across the road from Camp Casey, and a mile or so away the peaks of a huge Camelot-like tent shades is Camp Casey II with its new field of crosses, a chow line, portable toilets, media tables, yoga tent and stage. A local landowner offered his pastureland to the antiwar protestors when the original Camp Casey spilled over the ditches and drew large crowds along narrow, winding Prairie Chapel Road...