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Weight Loss Fines Are Discriminatory and Counterproductive | The Health Care...
Our colleague, Jon Robison, Ph.D., joins Al and me on The Health Care Blog. To begin with, forced corporate weight loss programs don’t work. Of roughly 1000 wellness vendors promising weight loss,...
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Expose of Corporate Weight-Shaming Programs Among Year’s Top Articles
We published “Employers Should Disband Corporate Weight Control Programs,” in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Managed Care, in February. We recently learned that it is trending close to #1 for...
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End Fat-Shaming Corporate Wellness Programs
Here is our Huffpost on fat-shaming. We of course encourage click-throughs (and “likes” and shares!) but the Reader’s Digest version (if you are under 30 ask your parents what that expression means)...
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That Was the Year that Was: Our Top Contributions of 2015
Our year-end jubilee has so far featured lists of the worst vendors and the funniest vendors. To close out the year on a more serious note — if for no other reason than to show we are indeed capable...
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Eureka! Someone who thoughtfully disagrees with me…and has good points!
Usually a tease like that leads to exactly the opposite content, as in Wellness Corporation Solutions Gives Us A Dose of Much-Needed Criticism, which of course turned into the poster child for our...
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Overweight? Johnson & Johnson’s Dream Is Your Worst Nightmare
Every time I think wellness promoters can’t possibly match their previous shock-and-awe levels of egregious statements and proposals, they come through with another one. This post is from the...
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Johnson & Johnson Proposes a “Fat Tax” on Businesses
This J&J/Goetzel/Vitality proposal is a Fat Tax, pure and simple. If they are right about shareholders caring how many overweight people a company employs (and they aren’t), it is a tax on...
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NY Times Economists Diss Corporate Weight-Shaming…but It’s Even Worse than...
We never post on Sundays. We are making an exception today on the theory that a lot of people in the Northeast are at home and would welcome the distraction. Here in Massachusetts it’s so cold that...
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For Its Get-Thin-Quick Programs, HealthyWage Proposes Unhealthy Wagers
Just when you thought wellness vendors have all finally connected to the internet, HealthyWage comes along. They write: “Given the financial upside and the fact that they’re just plain fun, it’s no...
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Another Expert Slams Fat-Shaming Corporate Weight-Loss “Challenges”
While vendors like HealthyWage are pushing company weight challenges onto unsuspecting and poorly advised wellness directors — and wellness promoters at the University of Pennsylvania are subjecting...
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Wellsteps: Employees are fat because “it’s fun to be fat”
Wellsteps may be best-known for insulting the intelligence of its customers, by writing outcomes reports that show costs going up and down at the same time, and creating “ROI Models” that anybody can...
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Dog Bites Man: Yet Another HR Publication Slams Wellness…in a Cover Story
It simply isn’t news any more when a publication aimed at the human resources market publishes an article slamming wellness. It just means a reporter (Bruce Shutan in this case) is actually reporting...
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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...
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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...
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