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It's your Pin code & not your genetic code that your lasting good health depends on

March 7, 2017
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General Wellness

Gene tests are the latest to be offered by diagnostic labs to predict your pre-disposition to develop some kind of ailment. And if celebrities lead the way should we be surprised if this turns out to be the latest fad of this decade? But I could tell you without batting an eyelid - that’s a lot of money wasted. Check with your family physician i.e. if you still have one who you still trust will not to prescribe a MRI scan of your brain for a headache - Your genetic make-up is something you can't help - so why even bother. Good health has many social determinants too……… one of them being your PIN code (read where you live!) In fact according to the WHO Report on the...

Building Healthy Workplaces .… Building Learning Organizations

March 7, 2017
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General Wellness

HR professionals have really come of age in most organizations. I find young people often daring to do things which we could only imagine. There is no dearth of talent, ideas and dash. But when it comes to putting a strategy to build a healthy workplace we find the same bright lot harried with what to do and what not do. Probably since the concept of Wellness has yet to mature, or it is still a 'nice' and not 'need' to have fare. Whatever the reasons are I thought I would write a piece that helps. As we go about 'prompting' and 'promoting' wellness in organizations the distilled knowledge that we as an organization have acquired over these years is that "Building Healthy Workplaces" is about...