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Al Lewis keeps you up to date on employee health trends, wellness strategies and health literacy topics.

Apr 22, 20193 min read

Six Things Employees Should Know about Sleep

Wellness vendors tell employees that getting a good night’s sleep is important to overall health. Their sound observations include:...

Apr 1, 20194 min read

Six Things Your Employees Don’t Know About Dietary Fats and Oils

Fats have a bad reputation. The name doesn’t help. Here are six things your employees may not know about them. 1. Some fats and oils are...

Mar 14, 20193 min read

Six Things Employees Don’t Know About Employee Assistance Programs

If most employees have no clue about the benefits you offer them, you are not alone in the universe. Almost every large organization...

Mar 11, 20192 min read

Employee Wellness News Roundup: Canada Disses…Milk?

Among the more head-scratching news roundup items we have ever covered is this one: Canada has taken dairy off its good-for-you nutrition...

Feb 11, 20194 min read

Six Things Employees Should Know About Sugar

Very little is settled in nutrition science. Sugar is one of them. Added sugar – even naturally occurring sugar – should be limited in...

Feb 1, 20193 min read

Wellness and Benefits News Roundup: Health Literacy, Scanning, and Obesity

Bad news and good news in this roundup. Let’s do the good news first, for a change. Good News: Health Literacy A new report endorses...

Jan 23, 20192 min read

MRIs and CT Scans: Overused, Overpriced…and Overrated

The Journal of the American Medical Association says Americans are exposed to radiation, overtreatment and high costs via unnecessary...

Jan 7, 20195 min read

6 Myths and Facts About Employee Health Literacy

While employee health literacy is a fast-growing segment of employee health benefit services, what’s amazing is not the number of...

Dec 21, 20183 min read

Wellness & Benefits News Roundup | Breaking: EEOC Wellness Rules Now Unlikely Until 2020 or 2021

The EEOC put two lumps of coal in the wellness industry’s Festivus stocking late yesterday (12/20/18). One was expected. The other –...

Dec 14, 20184 min read

A Trip into the Treatment Trap: The Birth of Quizzify

by Al Lewis Does wondering how Quizzify got started keep you up at night? Wonder no longer… In 2012 I was hired to host a radio series...

Dec 4, 20182 min read

Wellness & Benefits News Roundup: Are Employees Getting Too Many Screens?

Normally we wait until we have three articles to “round up” but this one is compelling enough to round up on its own. Are Employees...

Nov 19, 20184 min read

Do you (and your employees) know these 3 important facts about dental care?

The best dental care trivia ever. Nowhere in healthcare is there a bigger gap between what employees should know and what they don't know...