workplace wellness

Fruit Is Brain Food! Health Benefits for Memory and More

By Lex Flamm on November 16, 2024

Erin Nella has a unique job at UC Davis Health. When a patient lands in the hospital with a brain injury, she tells them which foods they should eat to heal quickly—and fruit is always on the …

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Want Healthy Vegan Snacks for Work? Meet Rule Breaker

By Lex Flamm on October 31, 2024

In 2014, Nancy Kalish started a quest. She set out to make vegan, allergy-friendly brownies out of chickpeas—and get them to actually taste good. “I kept working at it and kept torturing my family …

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Banana Dance Party in San Francisco

By Erin Mittelstaedt on October 23, 2024

If you were in downtown San Francisco last Tuesday, you might have seen me dancing around the sidewalk in a banana suit. I was hanging out at a busy intersection with Nicole and Fabian (long-time …

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How to Build Healthy Food Habits at Work or Home

By Erin Mittelstaedt on October 9, 2024

If you’re struggling to build healthy food habits, that doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you. It might just mean that the environment around you is setting you up to fail. I read about …

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Employee Health and Wellness Tip: Stop and Listen to the Bugs

By Erin Mittelstaedt on August 21, 2024

“What’s that noise?” My 8-year-old son asks. It’s almost pitch black as we walk across my in-laws’ front lawn in rural West Virginia. It's 9:30 p.m. and we’re in a holler (a narrow valley between …

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How to Stop Emotional Eating: Tips From a Nutritionist

By The FruitGuys on August 9, 2024

About fifty percent of us are emotional eaters: people who turn to food not only when hungry, but when bored, lonely, or stressed. This is not a healthy approach to eating. An August 2004 report from …

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Designing an Office Break Room? Focus on the Basics

By The FruitGuys on July 24, 2024

Here’s a riddle for you: I have the power to make your employees more productive, less stressed, and happier with their work. What am I? If you guessed “the office break room”—maybe because the …

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Protect Your Mental Health at Work With This Weekly Reset

By Jessica Bickis on July 12, 2024

As head of data and information systems at The FruitGuys, I’ve found that balancing work and personal time can be a challenge. Luckily, I discovered a three-step practice that helps me protect my …

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Office Composting 101: How to Start Composting at Work

By The FruitGuys on April 12, 2024

If you’re worried about the food waste piling up in trash cans at your office, composting at work might be the perfect solution. Composting is an incredible process that turns undesirable organic …

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Is It Safe to Put Citrus in Compost? A Guide for Office Workers

By Lex Flamm on February 16, 2024

If you compost at your office, you probably know the basics: Eggshells, apple cores, and veggie peels are safe to add to your compost bucket, but raw meat and produce stickers should be trashed. Easy, …

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3 Reasons to Set Your 2024 Employee Wellness Budget Now

By Lex Flamm on November 10, 2023

“Budget” may have six letters, but for the managers of many corporate wellness programs, it’s still a four-letter word. Few things are more challenging than striking the right balance between a tight …

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4 Tips for #ParentingInAPandemic

By Julie Collins on September 15, 2020

Imagine this: It’s a pandemic. You are working from home. Your son is in preschool, but due to poor air quality from wildfires today, school is canceled. You are feeling constantly guilty because you …

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4 Ways to Reduce Office Food Waste

By Jonanna Widner on March 28, 2019

Narrator: She didn’t eat it later. How many times have you opened up your refrigerator at work to face a wall of half-full Tupperwarecontainers and week-old to-go boxes of food that will eventually …

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ACA Gives Office Wellness A Wake-Up Call

By Heather Boerner on December 18, 2013

Lunchtime yoga. Health fairs. Flu shot clinics. Fresh fruit and vegetables in the break room. You do right by your employees. But what effect will the Affordable Care Act, going into effect in 2014, …

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The Fountain of Fruit

By Chris Mittelstaedt on November 20, 2009

Day 26: The marsh of cubicles has cursed our party. We lost Lenny two days ago to the gurgling fried dough found in the quicksand pits of a budget planning meeting. Sue has been eating the native …

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