Health and Fitness


Would You Fire Someone Over a $1.39-Bag of Chips?

A diabetic employee grabbed a bag of chips to stabilize her blood sugar and paid for them as soon as she could. Walgreens fired her.

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Innovating Schools, One Lunch at a Time

How this socially responsible business is transforming school lunch programs across the country to attack the obesity epidemic

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How to Stay Fit on the Road

Exercising during business travel doesn't have to feel like work. Use these tips to be at your best mentally and physically while on the go.

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How to Open a Medical Marijuana Dispensary

The medical cannabis industry is exploding. Here's how you can break in.

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Dyslexia Fosters Entrepreneurs?

More than a third of business owners may be dyslexic. But most reveal the reading disorder is a gift that aided their success.

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Recent Articles about Health and Fitness

8 Ways to Promote Wellness in the Workplace

It's a new year and kick starting your wellness program is a way to help your employees achieve one of their new years resolutions—to be healthier.  Read more

How to Start a Yoga Business

Due to its popularity, many yoga lovers are quitting the corporate world to start their own yoga studios.  Read more

Would You Lie to a Customer?

Most restaurants try to accommodate special requests : Omitting chopped pe...  Read more

Two Pharmaceutical Companies Join Forces

Merging two struggling biotech firms from opposite sides of the globe solved a lot of financial problems—despite some logistical headaches.  Read more

WHO Links Cancer to Cell Phones

A couple of days ago, the official party line from the World Health Organization on cell phones was this: "no adverse health effects have been established...  Read more

The Business of Gluten-Free

Gwyneth Paltrow wrote on her lifestyle website Goop that she's "kind of in ...  Read more

Would You Fire Someone for Refusing to Get a Flu Shot?

Some Michigan hospitals are making flu shots and other vaccines mandatory for employees.  Read more

It's Never Too Late for Success: One Man's Story

Today I have the honor of interviewing an amazing man with a truly inspiring story. So often, I hear from entrepreneurs who are experiencing setbacks in l...  Read more

What Do You Need to Change?

This is the time of the year when we see a lot of wonderful, inspirational posts and articles about creating new goals for the New Year. Being a Read more

Medical Marijuana Laws Leave Employers Dazed and Confused

It's now legal to smoke pot for medical reasons in 14 states. What does that mean for employee policy?  Read more

What Makes Frank Run

In his quest to bring a revolutionary treatment to market, Boston entrepreneur Frank Reynolds aims to get the better of traumatic spinal cord injury. Again.  Read more

How to Make Health Care Reform Work for Your Business

It's official: the Affordable Health Care for America Act has been signed into law. It is going to have ramifications for business owners large and small. We...  Read more

How to Set Up a Dental Plan

Wading through dental plan options for your company can be daunting but employees will appreciate the added benefits. Here's how to select a plan that won't ...  Read more

Fired Over Breast Cancer?

Here's the case of one company that allegedly ran afoul of the new federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, and how you can avoid doing the same.  Read more

Medicinal Marijuana Retailing

Cannabis's cultural capital is rising - and so is dispensary revenue.  Read more

Video Game for Kids with Diabetes

Children with diabetes have a hard time, as do their parents who have to try and coax them to allow their blood sugar levels to be tested with needles d...  Read more

Zumba Turns Dancers Into Entrepreneurs

The founders of the dance fitness craze teach their trainers how to turn a passion into a thriving business.  Read more

College Student to Hasbro: Thanks but No Thanks

Why he turned down the toymaker's offer of $500,000  Read more

How to Comply With the Americans With Disabilities Act

Breaking down what the decades-old act means for small businesses.  Read more

The Best Hotel Fitness Centers

Three hotels made our list of the best hotel gyms, and we didn’t even break a sweat.  Read more

Hot Market: The Aging Population

Baby boomers are hitting old age—and they are terrified of nursing homes. If only there was some way to keep the elderly in their homes and healthy.  Read more

Hot Market: Insomniacs

The problem with an always-on, 24-hour, caffeine-fueled culture: When you want to go to sleep, your humming brain won’t let you.  Read more

Dancing to Success

Zumba founders Alberto Aghion, Alberto Perez, and Alberto Perlman created a company out of a dance phenomenon.  Read more

How I Help People Beat Cancer

TJ Farnsworth, founder and CEO of Sightline Health, is adamant about fostering a strong culture of customer service. But that dedication was put to the test ...  Read more

Passions: Jeffrey Sweeney, Yogi

Every morning , Jeffrey Sweeney spends two hours putting his legs behind his head. And standing on his hands, and bending backward to grab...  Read more

Small Business Not Left Out of Health-Care Reform

With the possible adoption of a national exchange program comes the benefits of buying in bulk.  Read more

The Future of the Human Body

Ten innovations that will improve quality of life—and bring down health care costs  Read more

Big Business Eyes EMR Industry

Corporations, such as Dell and GE, partner with small business pioneers to have a stake in the electronic medical records industry.  Read more

Farmers' Goods Called Risky Foods

Research claims that produce are more likely to transmit food-born illnesses, bad news for food entrepreneurs.  Read more

Law Bars Employers From Genetic Discrimination

A recently finalized law will make it illegal for employers to take their employees' genetic information into account in hiring and firing decisions.  Read more

How Does Jack LaLanne Do It?

When he opened his first health club in 1936 at 21, Jack LaLanne helped launch an industry that today brings in $19 billion annually. A tireless advocate for...  View slideshow

What Is Small Business? (And Can It Afford Health Insurance?)

A report on National Public Radio last Saturday laid out a debate that may so...  Read more

Continuous Non-Invasive Glucose Monitors

The Glucowatch is now discontinued. It provided a method to monitor blood sug...  Read more

Smoking Hazardous To Your Apple Warranty

Ever since The Consumerist broke this story ea...  Read more

Coverage, but at What Price?

THE OBAMA AGENDA, IN DETAIL Democrat Barack Obama's proposal is as at least as sweep...  Read more

Support Grows for Employer Health Care

A recent survey finds most Americans want employers to pay health insurance costs for workers.  Read more

Employees Lacking Sleep

Over a quarter of American workers are dozing off on the job, a survey finds.  Read more

Workers Shrugging Off Health

A new study shows few Americans consider health-care a priority in their lives.  Read more

Health Care Spending Down

As employees tighten their belts, many are cutting corners on health care, a survey finds.  Read more

These Cities Offer the Best Ways To Stay Fit on the Road

Some travel destinations can't help but invoke your inner Lance Armstrong. Staying on the workout wagon while on the open road is not easy, but i...  Read more