Introducing a wellbeing strategy in the workplace can be tricky and mistakes can often be expensive. However, as the Office of National Statistics (ONS) reported that in 2013, 31 million days were lost due to sickness absences in the UK, organisations up and down the land are looking to implement health and wellbeing programmes to combat the costs … Read more
Following a review of 30 studies covering more than 4million patients, the results point towards women who have an irregular heartbeat may be at greater risk of stroke, heart disease, heart failure and death than men. However, the evidence published in The British Medical Journal (BMJ) found no clear explanation for why this should be the case. … Read more
In the UK, it is estimated that there are over 16 million people that have high blood pressure and as many as 5 million may not be aware they are affected. As your heart pumps blood round your body, the blood pushes against the arteries walls, this is your blood pressure. Blood pressure is measured … Read more
Blood lipids? That’s Cholesterol to you and me In recent years cholesterol has become a subject that most people have heard about and have some knowledge of. It is sometimes referred to as the silent killer because of the lack of symptoms associated with it, but make no mistake elevated cholesterol levels pose a real … Read more
Figures released by the Cancer Research UK this week show a huge 45 per cent rise in the number of cases of cancer caused by excess weight in just two decades. On current trends, nearly 3 in 4 adults will be overweight or obese by 2035 – obesity is on course to become “the new normal”! The knock on effect of … Read more
Here at Healthy Performance Towers, we always encourage people to make lifestyle changes to help improve their health and wellbeing. The New Year is the perfect opportunity for a fresh start and getting into new habits and yet, so many people fail to achieve what they set out to do. So, we have come up with … Read more
Happy New Year to all of you and at HP Towers, we’d like to wish all of our clients and readers a healthy and prosperous 2016! Our first news story of 2016 relates to alcohol awareness for employees as many of us return to work following a period of over-indulgence. On New Year’s Day, the UK’s … Read more
With our health assessors having finished all of our employee health checks and most of us are about to break for the Christmas festivities which will soon be in full swing, at Healthy Performance Towers we’d like to remind all motorists about the dangers of drink driving. As well as being against the law, there is lots of … Read more
Nutrition and healthy eating is probably the biggest subject that we encounter during an employee health screening programme and at Healthy Performance, many of our health assessors could dedicate a whole day to the subject if they had the time. At Healthy Performance Towers, we love our food (he says while eating a Salmon quinoa … Read more
Beating Bowel Cancer is the support and campaigning charity for everyone affected by bowel cancer. They provide vital practical and emotional help – on the phone, digitally and face to face. They campaign tirelessly to raise awareness of bowel cancer and ensure people get the highest quality care. Decembeard is Beating Bowel Cancer’s annual initiative to … Read more
New research by the Mayo clinic published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that drinking around 450ml worth of an energy drink significantly increases a person’s blood pressure and stress hormone responses, which could in turn increase the risk of cardiovascular events. Researchers studied 25 healthy young adults with no known cardiovascular risk … Read more
New research published from YouGov research has revealed that 19% of the UK’s workforce have pulled a sickie in the last twelve months. That equates to over 6 million people who have bunked off work! It’s hard to estimate the impact of sickies on the economy, but it would be in the billions. Historically, the worst day in … Read more
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