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Rebecca Johnson’s article in Corporate Wellness Magazine may disappoint our...
Yes, we know you read this blog for the chuckles. Our most popular and funniest posts are usually the ones showcasing the wellness industry’s race to the bottom. And despite heavy competition, very few...
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How to cheat in a corporate weight loss contest (SPOILER ALERT: This gets gross)
If we were real journalists here, we’d have killed a lot of trees in the cause of exposing the massive amount of lying and cheating by wellness vendors. However, as mere bloggers, all we do is kill...
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Shocking News: Employees Reveal They Cheat in Weight-Loss Contests
Recently we described how to cheat one of those worthless, hazardous corporate crash-dieting contests, like the ones run by Wellness Corporate Solutions or HealthyWages or Virgin Pulse (nee ShapeUp)....
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Is there ever a good reason to flout US Preventive Services Task Force...
This is the second part in the series on wellness vendors and the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). Q: Why do vendors ignore or flout the USPSTF? There are five reasons, three of which are...
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Top Ten Things Wellness Vendors Don’t Know about Employee Weight
Because I didn’t mention any names, I published this one on the Corporate Health and Wellness Association blog. So you’ll have to click through. SPOILER ALERT: the bad news is that there are a boatload...
View ArticleAt Schlumberger, Today is Take-Your-Stupid-Wellness-Vendor-to-Work Day.
Once again, having been snake-charmed by HeathyWage, Schlumberger is offering a crash-dieting contest, starting today, January 22. Once again, they are ignoring every iota of research that says...
View ArticleHealthywage is helping Schlumberger employees crash-diet their way to better...
In the wellness industry’s epidemic of very stable geniusitis, Healthywage is Patient Einstein. Somehow they recruited Russian trolls to convince Schlumberger that the best thing they could do to...
View ArticleThe Workplace Wellness Industry’s Body-Shaming Hall of Shame
Note that this personal blog post does not necessarily represent the views of any organization with which I am affiliated, other than the one with which I co-founded. I am referring, of course, to the...
View ArticleWe interrupt this program…
I have several new posts ready to go — the usual suspects acting out in their usual hilarious fashion — but this is a serious post. It is time for wellness vendors to stop harassing employees about...
View ArticleJ’Accuse! Naked Juice is sugar water
Occasionally we dual-post in Quizzify and They Said What, when we think an item is important to all of us. This is that situation. Candy is bad for us. Your employees know that, so they don’t have to...
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