|  | | We often work on increasing our physical activity or making healthful eating choices, but how often do we focus on improving our sleep? The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends a minimum of seven hours of sleep per night - yet, surprisingly, many of us find this goal hard to achieve. In 2017, less than a third of Emory employees reported getting seven or more hours of sleep each night during the week. The Sleep Better! Feel Better! campaign was recently introduced to give employees an opportunity to focus on their sleep while using resources available through Healthy Emory Connect. | Read More |
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|  | Lifestyle change success! | Emory Midtown employee Susan Horner lost 20 pounds, improved her glucose control and feels like an improved version of herself following participation in the Diabetes Prevention Program.
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| | |  | A sleep guide tailored for you | Want to sleep longer or better? Need a better routine or sleep environment? Use the Healthy Emory Connect Sleep Guide, a program tailored to address your sleep needs. This guide provides simple, actionable lifestyle changes to help you meet your goals.
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|  | | Operation: Eat Right, Emory's latest nutrition campaign, just wrapped on July 29. Created by the Healthy Emory team, this campaign focused on highlighting the nutrition resources available to employees within Healthy Emory Connect, Emory's new health and well-being resource powered by Virgin Pulse. The campaign covered 4 topics (or missions) all designed to help employees focus on portion control, cooking more meals at home, tracking their food and beverage intake, and increasing the amount of fruits and vegetables they consume in their daily diet. | Read More |
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|  | All of Us: Research partnership with Emory | Emory is partnering with the All of Us Research program to better understand why people get sick or stay healthy. The program, funded by the National Institutes of Health, is recruiting participants in one of the largest, longitudinal research projects of its kind.
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| | |  | Chef's Corner: Vegetable Lasagna | Giving into the craving of cheesy pasta goodness can also be healthy! Appease your taste buds with a medley of fresh vegetables and whole grains in this recipe. Try picking up a fresh harvest of mushrooms and basil at your neighborhood farmers market.
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