Global Handwashing Day
Be Smart, Be Safe…and Celebrate! If you read the CDC page for Global Handwashing Day, it sounds a bit like a primer for preventing (so-called) third-world problems: “Global Handwashing Day is a way to support a global and local culture of handwashing with soap,...
Terrible Decision by Feds
New 2015 Dietary Guidelines Ignore Sustainability Kiss sustainability goodbye when it comes to the new 2015 Dietary Guidelines. According to a statement made on Tuesday, Oct 6, by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia...
Sustainability Starts With Us
Almost on a daily basis, a new study is released that triggers or confirms our worst fears about the state of our climate. Temperatures and sea levels are rising, ice caps and glaciers are melting, ocean currents and weather patterns are shifting. Weather-related...
Culture Counts!
Culture Counts! One of the top challenges for organizations around the world is culture and employee engagement. In fact, fully 87% of organizations cite culture and engagement as one of their top challenges, and 50 percent call the issue “very important.” Deloitte...
Eat As Much As You Want….Just Exercise More: Modern Pseudoscience in Action
Just Exercise More? What if I told you that it isn’t really food and people’s eating habits that are contributing to our worldwide obesity epidemic? What if I told you that the junk food so many people live on doesn’t really contribute to today’s crisis in which more...
The Conversation I Hated to Have
The Conversation I Hated to Have There was one conversation I hated, just absolutely hated to have with my dad when I was growing up. Can you guess which conversation? It’s wasn’t about cleaning my room, my skirt being too short, getting my hair out of my eyes,...
Discerning Between Science and Pseudo-science
The Battle over Science “I’m scared!” This isn’t something you really want to hear from a world expert in children’s infectious disease. But that’s exactly what Paul A. Offit, MD, said in an op-ed piece in the New York Times this February. Who is Dr. Offit and why did...
Three Steps to Greater Empathy
Empathy is a Choice Empathy is the ability to see problems from the perspective of another, to put ourselves in their shoes, and to extend ourselves to others. It is the difference between feeling ‘with’ someone and feeling ‘for’ someone (compassion). Empathy...
The Best Weight-loss Diet or Exercise Routines
Is “The Best” Really Best? If you get the same results as I did Googling “best workout” or “best exercise,” you’ll get between 263 and 512 million results. Similarly, Google “best diet” or “best diet for weight loss” and you’ll also be in the hundreds of millions. For...US DOL Approved
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Department of Labor: Certified Wellness Coach Bulletin and Curriculum
