Wellness Workdays

The Best Wellness Employer program, developed by Wellness Workdays in collaboration with experts from Harvard Medical School, recognizes the significant achievements of employers dedicated to improving employee health and well-being.

HINGHAM, Mass. (PRWEB)
March 12, 2020

Wellness Workdays, a leading provider of corporate wellness programs, announces that 19 organizations achieved 2020 Best Wellness Employer gold certification: A.I.M. Mutual Insurance Companies; Brown University; Bryant University; Cape Cod Healthcare; City of Portland, Maine; EMD Serono, Rockland; Howell Laboratories; Jefferson County, CO; John Hancock Life Insurance Company; Maine State Department of Transportation; Maine Veterans’ Homes; New Balance; Norway Savings Bank; Orlando Utilities Commission; Putnam Investments; South County Health; Symmons Industries; Systems Engineering, Inc. and Veissmann Manufacturing U.S. The Best Wellness Employer program, developed by Wellness Workdays in collaboration with experts from Harvard Medical School, recognizes the significant achievements of employers dedicated to improving employee health and well-being.

“Focusing on employee well-being is a key component of an organization’s overall plan for a productive, top-performing workforce,” said Debra Wein, founder and CEO of Wellness Workdays. “Employers that offer wellness programs that meet the rigorous evaluation standards for certification can validate their investment in well-being while building a stronger organization and becoming an employer of choice.”

Of the more than 50 certifications awarded in 2020, which also include silver and bronze certifications, the 19 gold organizations met rigorous evaluation standards in the four key areas of assessment, strategy, implementation and evaluation. Five of these organizations earned gold certification for each of the past three years – A.I.M. Mutual Insurance Companies, Brown University, Bryant University, the Orlando Utilities Commission and Putnam Investments – and six organization earned gold certification for each of the past two years – Cape Cod Healthcare, Maine Veterans’ Homes, New Balance, Norway Savings Bank, Systems Engineering and Viessmann Manufacturing US. See the list of organizations that received 2020 Best Wellness Employer certifications.

Several of the Best Wellness Employers will be featured at Wellness Workdays’ 7th Annual Emerging Trends in Wellness Conference on April 1-2. Recipients will share insights on best practices and provide real life examples of how to overcome challenges when starting and growing an employee wellness program.

About Wellness Workdays

Wellness Workdays is a Massachusetts company with offices in New York, Florida and Texas that designs and delivers corporate wellness programs to promote employee health, productivity and a culture of well-being. Our subsidiary, OMC Wellness, based in Portland, Maine, provides population health management solutions utilizing onsite health coaching and proprietary technology to sustain measurable outcomes. A Certified Woman-Owned Business Enterprise, we have earned industry recognition and best practices awards for our clients, which include New Balance, EMD Millipore, Putnam Investments, Cape Cod Healthcare, Brown University, Maine Department of Transportation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rockland Trust, Titan America, Norway Savings Bank and Harvard Business School. For more information about Wellness Workdays, visit http://www.wellnessworkdays.com or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Learn more about the Best Wellness Employer certification program at http://www.bestwellnessemployer.com and join the conversation on Twitter #BestWellness2020.

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Modern Living with kathy ireland® with Danskin

Modern Living with kathy ireland® is pleased to announce an exclusive interview with Danskin executives to discuss their fitness, yoga, sports, dance, cheer, gymnastics and athleisure collections.

LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)
March 11, 2020

Modern Living with kathy ireland® is pleased to announce an exclusive interview with Danskin executives to discuss their fitness, yoga, sports, dance, cheer, gymnastics and athleisure collections.

Since 1882, Danskin has proudly been synonymous with femininity, innovation, quality and superior comfort and fit. Starting out as a family-owned business that catered to New York City’s dancers selling tights, tutus, and leotards, Danskin soon became the standard for dancers across the United States. Today, Danskin enjoys status as the ultimate women’s health and wellness lifestyle brand, both nationally and internationally. The label has evolved with women’s lifestyles for more than 135 years to create the best in fashionable, functional dancewear, activewear and casual clothes as well as accessories, socks, intimate apparel and sleepwear. Whether it’s stylish activity-appropriate fitness, yoga, dance, gymnastics or casual wear, Danskin is dedicated to meeting fashion trends and performance needs of active women and girls. The Danskin mission is simple: to offer women and girls exceptional clothes for living.

Carolyn Siskovic, Vice President of Brand Management for Danskin, says the brand is tried and true. She explains, “There are not a lot of brands that can actually boast that they’re over one-hundred years old. Danskin’s heritage is deeply rooted in dance but the brand has evolved over the years to create activewear and lifestyle products for women.”

For more information about Danskin, visit Danskin.com and tune in to WE tv as sponsored content on Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 7:30am ET/PT.

About Modern Living with kathy ireland®

Modern Living with kathy ireland® is an independently produced television series airing domestically on WE tv as sponsored content and on Bloomberg Internationally. Hosted by lifestyle influencer and business mogul Kathy Ireland, the series features the latest in lifestyle and B2C trends, breakthroughs, and solutions, while highlighting companies from around the globe in a unique and credible format. For more about Modern Living with kathy ireland®, visit modernlivingtv.com and check out the series on social media!

About Danskin

Danskin, owned by Iconix Brand Group, Inc., has been the authority in dance since 1882. From its start making hosiery for ballerinas, to outfitting the Radio City Rockettes and New York City Ballet, Danskin has been the standard in dance for more than 135 years. Today, Danskin has evolved from a traditional dance apparel brand to a health and wellness lifestyle brand for the modern woman. Danskin exists to enable powerful feelings of expression through movement and is committed to creating products that support today’s woman as she moves through her active, engaged, dynamic life.

For updates and more information on Danskin, please visit http://www.danskin.com.

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A Nutritional Approach to a Revised Model for Medicine by Dr. Derrick Lonsdale

“Dr. Lonsdale shows his brilliance yet once again. A true pioneer in alternative medicine, his wide breadth of knowledge, wisdom, and experience form to make this an excellent read.” – Laura DeVincentis, ND, LAc

NEW YORK (PRWEB)
March 11, 2020

Can a simple change in diet make all the difference? Could the obesity, diabetes, and a host of other diseases be the result of eating too much sugar? Is alternative medicine the answer? These questions and more are answered in the illuminating book by longtime physician, Dr. Derrick Lonsdale, M.D., who draws attention to the dangers of excessive sugar ingestion that is so widespread today.

His book “A Nutritional Approach to a Revised Model for Medicine: Is Modern Medicine Helping You?” cites case reports to illustrate these dangers and explains which symptoms may be stemmed in the early stages. But if symptoms are left unrecognized and behavior is unmodified, these symptoms become less treatable, giving rise to chronic diseases and serious health problems.

As Dr. Lonsdale writes in his book: “The doctor does not heal anyone. It is the body that heals itself and the doctor must teach the patient how to retrieve his or her own health and that is what the New Medicine is all about. We must conclude that it is the ratio of calories to the vitamin/mineral nutrients required to process the calories like the analogy of the choked internal combustion engine.”

His 5-Star Amazon reviews include:

“Dr. Lonsdale shows his brilliance yet once again. A true pioneer in alternative medicine, his wide breadth of knowledge, wisdom, and experience form to make this an excellent read. I highly recommend this latest book by a man who has spent a lifetime studying medicine and caring for his patients as a true humanitarian.” – Laura DeVincentis, ND, LAc

“Very interesting, written for the layman in easy-to-read language.” – Victoria J. Atkin

“Dr. Derrick Lonsdale has been well recognized by his colleagues as having significant expertise in helping children and even adults with autism spectrum disorders. With over 60 years of clinical experience including 20 as a pediatrician at the Cleveland Clinic, he has now written a highly relevant book on a covert and very common underlying cause of numerous frustrating and expensive illnesses that increasingly plague western civilizations. More importantly, he also shows the simple remedial solutions.” – Michael Godfrey

Watch the video book trailer at: https://youtu.be/-f5ObdoA8ys    

About the Author: Derrick Lonsdale, M.D., was born in Lancashire, England, and earned an MB.BS. at London University. He worked in medical practice for 64 years, retiring at the age of 88. Dr. Lonsdale is a Fellow of the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM), an international professional organization that represents the alternative medicine field. He has written two previous books on alternative medicine and published over 100 medical papers.

“Dr. Derrick Lonsdale provides the nutritional and health care answers we need in his no-nonsense book. If you have health care problems, this is the book for you. We are thrilled to be the publisher,” said Robert Fletcher, CEO of Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Agency.

A NUTRITIONAL APPROACH TO A REVISED MODEL FOR MEDICINE: IS MODERN MEDICINE HELPING YOU? (ISBN: 978-1-61897-092-3) is available for $13.50 and can be ordered through the publisher’s website: http://sbpra.com/DerrickLonsdale or at or at your favorite book seller.

WHOLESALERS: This book is distributed by Ingram Books and other wholesale distributors. Contact your representative with the ISBN for purchase. Wholesale purchase for retailers, universities, libraries, and other organizations is also available through the publisher; please email bookorder@sbpra.net.

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MCHENRY, Ill. (PRWEB)
March 10, 2020

Zenith Labs has partnered with Vitamin Angels to help put an end to childhood malnutrition and infections worldwide. Each year, about 250-million preschool aged children are impacted by Vitamin A deficiency and parasitic worms. It’s a serious problem which causes slow growth, excruciating pain, weakened immune systems, declining vision, and much more. Many of these children will become blind and die within 12-months.

At a glance:

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  100s of millions of children suffer needlessly from Vitamin A deficiency and parasitic infections. These kids need urgent help.
• Malnutrition and infections cause stunted growth, blindness, and death.
• Zenith Labs is now partnered with Vitamin Angels to help deliver life-saving nutrients and medication to children in over 70 countries.

“Children are our future – and each one of them deserves to live their lives free from the terrible burden of malnutrition and disease,” says Zenith Labs’ Medical Research Director, Dr. Ryan Shelton.

To achieve this ambitious goal, Zenith Labs is teaming up with Vitamin Angels, a non-profit company who’ve helped provide nutrition and medication to more than 70 million children in over 70 countries. Founded in 1994, Vitamin Angels is rated in the top 4% of charities in the world for trust and efficiency.

Beginning today, Zenith Labs will donate a portion of their profits to help support the nutritional and health needs of children across the world. For each product Zenith Labs sells, 2 children will receive an entire year of Vitamin A and deworming medication.

About Zenith Labs

Founded in 2016 by a team of health professionals, Zenith Labs is a health and wellness company based in Illinois. Zenith Labs combines the best in traditional medicine and modern science to create premium health supplements used by thousands of people across the world.

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2019 AMI Conference Attendees

The more often the therapeutic practices of Yoga Science are incorporated into the daily lives of physicians and other healthcare professionals, the better equipped they will be to redefine every ‘problem’ as simply a situation that they are confident to deal with. – Leonard Perlmutter, AMI Founder

AVERILL PARK, N.Y. (PRWEB)
March 10, 2020

The nation’s only comprehensive training in Yoga Science and meditation as holistic mind/body medicine will be taught at The American Meditation Institute’s (AMI) 32 credit hour CME conference October 20-24, 2020 at the Wyndhurst Manor & Club Resort at Miraval in Lenox, Massachusetts. Entitled The Heart and Science of Yoga, this 12th annual event is accredited through the American Medical Association and American Nurses Association, and is designed to help identify, prevent and relieve stress and burnout experienced by physicians and healthcare professionals in dealing with the extraordinary demands created by today’s medical culture and the coronavirus epidemic.

According to the annual “National Physician Burnout, Depression & Suicide Report” recently published in Medscape Report the rate of burnout among physicians has remained high over the past few years. This is troubling given that an average of 69% of physicians across all generations report that burnout has a moderate to severe impact their lives. The fallout from burnout symptoms follows physicians into their personal lives as well. Approximately 73% of physicians say burnout has an impact on their relationships.

The dedication, enthusiasm, and teaching methodology of the entire AMI faculty create a dynamic and interactive course for their students. Each faculty member is committed to the advancement and training of Yoga Science as holistic mind/body medicine. This year’s faculty includes Leonard Perlmutter, AMI founder and conference director; Michael Greger MD, founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and internationally recognized speaker and best-selling author; Sat Bir Singh Khalsa PhD, Director of Research for the Kundalini Research Institute, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Anthony Santilli MD, board-certified in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine; Jesse Ritvo MD, Assistant Medical Director, Inpatient Psychiatry, University of Vermont Health Center; Renee Rodriguez-Goodemote MD, Medical Director of the Saratoga Hospital Community Health Center; Joshua Zamer MD, Medical Director for Addiction Medicine at Saratoga Hospital Community Health Center and Chairman of the Department of Family Practice; Anita Burock-Stotts MD, board certified in Internal Medicine; Janine Pardo MD, board-certified Internist emphasizing Preventive Care, and founder of the Weston Internal Medicine and Wellness Center in Weston, MA; Gustavo Grodnitzky PhD, Chair of the AMI Psychological Education Committee; Kristin Kaelber, MD, board-certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics in Cleveland, Ohio; Jenness Cortez Perlmutter, faculty member of The American Meditation Institute, and Lee Albert, NMT, acclaimed neuromuscular therapist and gentle yoga instructor.

As part of its ongoing effort to redress the physician burnout issue, The American Meditation Institute in 2009 conducted a retrospective case study of participants who previously completed “The Heart and Science of Yoga” curriculum. The findings included these positive, reproducible, long-term health-promoting changes: significant reductions in stress and fear, decreased anxiety and depression, lowered blood pressure, lowered heart rate, improved restorative sleep, improved energy levels, increased creative capacity, diminishment of migraine headaches, elimination of irritable bowel syndrome, enhanced happiness and optimism, reduced cholesterol levels, diminished or extinguished acute and chronic pain, weight loss and increased breathing capacity.

According to AMI founder and conference director Leonard Perlmutter, “The interface of lifestyle, inflammation and allostatic load is where meaningful change can happen. The more consistently the therapeutic practices of Yoga Science are incorporated into the daily lives of physicians and other healthcare professionals, the better equipped they will be to redefine every “problem” as simply a situation that they are confident to deal with.”

Keyvan Hariri MD, board certified in Family Medicine in Manhattan Beach California and a “Heart and Science of Yoga” conference alumni. In his final evaluation he wrote, “This curriculum has been transformational, inspiring and self-empowering. I highly recommend this conference to every healthcare practitioner.”

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About the American Meditation Institute

The American Meditation Institute is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization devoted to the teaching and practice of Yoga Science, meditation and its allied disciplines as mind/body medicine. In its holistic approach to wellness, AMI combines the healing arts of the East with the practicality of modern Western science. The American Meditation Institute offers a wide variety of classes, retreats, and teacher training programs. AMI also publishes “Transformation” a quarterly journal of meditation as holistic mind/body medicine. Call 518.674.8714 for a mail or email subscription.

Media Contact:

Robert Washington

60 Garner Road,

Averill Park, NY 12018

Tel: 518-674-8714

Fax: 518-674-8714

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Enhancing Vision to Revitalize Life

Those with low vision and other retinal conditions will have an opportunity to regain the independence they once knew,” says Vispero Vice President, North America Sales, Richard Tapping.

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (PRWEB)
March 09, 2020

Eyedaptic, Inc., a natural vision software company, announced today a joint partnership with Vispero, a leading assistive technology provider for the visually impaired, to expand its reach of visually assistive Augmented Reality (AR) devices. By partnering together, Eyedaptic & Vispero can offer broader access of their low vision solution to the community.

More than 250 million people are affected by retinal disease globally. Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) alone impacts more than 170 million people, urging low vision experts to find a real solution to address this growing need. Eyedaptic is a software technology company, focused on developing and marketing visually assistive Augmented Reality (AR) devices with embedded simulated natural vision software in open market hardware platforms. Their comfortable, wearable low vision aid works to enhance daily living for those with low vision, including those with AMD.

Eyedaptic and Vispero will be co-hosting a booth at this year’s CSUN Assistive Technology Conference at the Marriott in Anaheim, California, from March 11th to 13th. CSUN (Cal State University Northridge) 35th Assistive Technologies Conference provides an inclusive setting for researchers, practitioners, exhibitors, end users, speakers and other participants to share knowledge and best practices in the field of assistive technology. Visit booth #503/603/703 to learn more about gaining access to Eyedaptic technology.

Clinical data presented at last year’s CSUN conference validated how the Eyedaptic eyeglasses improve both visual acuity as well as tasks of daily living. The clinical data presented demonstrated marked improvements of visual acuity of two times and five times improvement in daily living tasks. Additionally, the glasses are comfortable and easy to wear while executing a wide variety of tasks under a range of conditions.

“Our eyewear offers the widest field of view with Augmented Reality (AR) on the market today, to improve the vision for those with Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and other retinal challenges,” says Jay Cormier, Founder and CEO of Eyedaptic. “Through this partnership, we have the potential to reach more people struggling with the daily challenges that accompany low vision. This opportunity to share our technology with such a diverse crowd and get the word out on how we can improve millions of people’s lives is an honor.”

“We are excited about this opportunity to improve accessibility with state-of-the-art technology,” says Vispero Vice President, North America Sales, Richard Tapping. “Those with low vision and other retinal conditions will have an opportunity to regain the independence they once knew.”

About Eyedaptic

Eyedaptic is a privately held company that develops visual aid software, enabled by augmented reality hardware, for macular degeneration and other retinal diseases. The proprietary Simulated Natural Vision software goes beyond magnification to enable a fuller field of vision, for those suffering from central vision disorders such as AMD (age-related macular degeneration), to revitalize their quality of life. For more information, please contact info@eyedaptic.com.

About Vispero:

Vispero is the global leader for assistive technology products for those with vision impairments. Freedom Scientific, The Paciello Group, Enhanced Vision and Optelec, all Vispero brands, have a long history of innovation for customers with accessibility needs. Today our product portfolio is considered one of the most diverse and reliable on the market. For more information, visit http://www.vispero.com.

Media Contact:

Jay Cormier

Eyedaptic, Inc.

949-216-0816

jay.cormier@eyedaptic.com

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