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How to choose a diet: Should you eat more pasta?
Did you read that eating more pasta helps you lose weight? Before you start loading up on alfredo sauce, let’s take a look at what the study actually said. Can pasta be a part of a healthy diet? Yes! Carbs are not the enemy. In fact, one of the reasons I love Michele Payn’s award-winning book Food Truths from Farm to Table is the down-to-earth, science-based information about food and nutrition. Fact #16 is “Grains are an important part of your diet.” Exactly! Eating a variety of foods is the best way to maintain a healthy weight and feel great. However…. This doesn’t mean you ...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - April 19, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Diet and Nutrition Tips Heart Health pasta and weight loss Source Type: blogs

How to choose a diet: Should you eat more pasta?
Did you read that eating more pasta helps you lose weight? Before you start loading up on alfredo sauce, let’s take a look at what the study actually said. Can pasta be a part of a healthy diet? Yes! Carbs are not the enemy. In fact, one of the reasons I love Michele Payn’s award-winning book Food Truths from Farm to Table is the down-to-earth, science-based information about food and nutrition. Fact #16 is “Grains are an important part of your diet.” Exactly! Eating a variety of foods is the best way to maintain a healthy weight and feel great. However…. This doesn’t mean you ...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - April 19, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Diet and Nutrition Tips Heart Health Women's Wellness farm and food Source Type: blogs

How Does A Negative Work Environment Create Job Stress?
Does a crabby co-worker or an overly demanding boss increase stress? Absolutely. According to my job stress research, the environment at work is the 3rd leading cause of stress. This makes sense for a couple of reasons: First, stress is contagious. Sitting next to a highly stressed person increases your stress. A recent study indicates this second-hand stress reaction may be hard-wired. Chemicals released in one body due to stress signal the rest of the group of danger. This reaction comes in handy if we all need to escape a burning building, but isn’t helpful when it leads to burn-out. This second-hand nat...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - April 5, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Employee Wellness Job Stress Leadership Stress Management Teamwork Source Type: blogs

How Does A Negative Work Environment Create Job Stress?
Does a crabby co-worker or an overly demanding boss increase stress? Absolutely. According to my job stress research, the environment at work is the 3rd leading cause of stress. This makes sense for a couple of reasons: First, stress is contagious. Sitting next to a highly stressed person increases your stress. A recent study indicates this second-hand stress reaction may be hard-wired. Chemicals released in one body due to stress signal the rest of the group of danger. This reaction comes in handy if we all need to escape a burning building, but isn’t helpful when it leads to burn-out. This second-hand nat...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - April 5, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Employee Wellness Job Stress Leadership Productivity Stress Management Teamwork Source Type: blogs

How Persistence Leads To Success: Wellness and Productivity Lessons from Rube Goldberg
Did you make a New Years Resolution? Did you set a first-quarter goal? Are setbacks impeding your progress toward success? So often when we make a goal we make it so big, it’s hard to accomplish all in one try. Doing a Rube Goldberg project with my daughter recently reminded me of three strategies for success in making a change or completing a project. A Rube Goldberg project is making a series of complicated steps to do something simple. In our case, it was putting a tea bag into a cup. Throughout the project, we needed to be persistent and look at failures as setbacks rather than reasons to quit. Here...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - March 21, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Job Stress Stress Management Teamwork Source Type: blogs

No, wine isn ’t better than exercise
Did you see the news today reporting wine is better for you than exercise? Me too. Here is the thing: That’s not what the study says. The truth is that older people who drink moderately statistically live longer than non-drinkers. They are 18% less likely to die prematurely. People who exercise 15 to 45 minutes per day are 11% less likely to die prematurely than non-exercisers. That doesn’t mean you should stop exercising and start drinking. Boiling medical research down to sound bites often gives people the permission to avoid the work of protecting their health. Exercise is essential to good health, and a high qualit...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - February 22, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Diet and Nutrition Tips Exercise Tips Heart Health Women's Wellness Source Type: blogs

No, wine isn ’t better than exercise
Did you see the news today reporting wine is better for you than exercise? Me too. Here is the thing: That’s not what the study says. The truth is that older people who drink moderately statistically live longer than non-drinkers. They are 18% less likely to die prematurely. People who exercise 15 to 45 minutes per day are 11% less likely to die prematurely than non-exercisers. That doesn’t mean you should stop exercising and start drinking. Boiling medical research down to sound bites often gives people the permission to avoid the work of protecting their health. Exercise is essential to good health, and a high qualit...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - February 22, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Heart Health Source Type: blogs

Why Do Stress Management Programs Fail?
Are we trying to solve the wrong problem? Work-Life Balance is one of my most requested speaking topics. Can I admit something? I hate the concept of Work-life Balance. Here are a few reasons why: First, Work-life Balance assumes that work and life exist separately from each other and if we just could keep one from interfering with the other everything would be great. It also assumes one can offset the other, life is stress free and work is stressful. Does that make sense? No. In the research I’ve conducted on job stress, fewer than ten percent of the more than 1000 people participating rated issues relating to work ...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - February 9, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Employee Wellness Job Stress Stress Management Source Type: blogs

Why Do Stress Management Programs Fail?
Are we trying to solve the wrong problem? Work-Life Balance is one of my most requested speaking topics. Can I admit something? I hate the concept of Work-life Balance Here are a few reasons why: First, Work-life Balance assumes that work and life exist separately from each other and if we just could keep one from interfering with the other everything would be great. It also assumes one can offset the other, life is stress free and work is stressful. Does that make sense? No. In the research I’ve conducted on job stress, fewer than ten percent of the more than 1000 people participating rated issues relating to work i...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - February 9, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Employee Wellness Stress Less Source Type: blogs