The link between public transportation and obesity

I’m a slave to my pedometer.  News flash – moving around helps.

Begin wellness lecture:

Found a public transit study from 2010 – people who opted to ditch their vehicle and commute on light rail transit to work were 81% less likely to become obese. Another study looking at the same stats calculated the average public transit taker walks 8.3 minutes more per day than non- transit users.

I offer as evidence my dad.  He’s over 80, and kicking.  He has a better BMI than I do, and is frequent user of public transportation.  Also, eats healthy and reasonable portions.

End of wellness lecture.

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Even terrorists fear Human Resources

OK, this is too good.

The AP has just aired some “dirty laundry” about management issues – no surprise there – but it is the organization that is unusual.  It’s an HR beef from inside Al-Qaida.

It seems a mid-level operative has been blowing off meetings, not filing expense reports on time, not answering the boss’ phone calls, yadda yadda.  As the story says, “After years of trying to discipline him, the leaders of al-Qaida’s North African branch sent one final letter to their most difficult employee. Most of all, they claimed he had failed to carry out a single spectacular operation, despite the resources at his disposal.

The employee, international terrorist Moktar Belmoktar, responded the way talented employees with bruised egos have in corporations the world over: He quit and formed his own competing group.”  You can read the whole letter here.  The photo below is purported to be the offending middle manager.

For those of us who work in HR, how refreshing to realize that global terror organizations are, in a very basic way, as human and flawed as the organizations all around us.

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One stop wellness and stress relief

So, stress and depression are in the running for most expensive health problems based on behavior, right there with heart conditions.

May I offer a simple answer?  A balanced beverage recipe.  A kale/spinach/apple/citrus smoothie over ice, with a vodka chaser.

I call it the “Detox/Retox.

Mix.  Drink.  Repeat.  The waiter just walked away, shaking his head.

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