Wellness & Well-being Highlights July 7th
Wellness & Well-being Highlights
for the
Week of July 7, 2025
This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog looks at NY proposing a bill that requires Narcan on jobsites—how your meditation practice not only improves your well-being but those around you—to how ICE raids are impacting the US construction sector. This week I would like to take a closer look at the difference between lifespan and healthspan in aging societies.
It is no secret that, in general, people are living longer in the USA. While that might sound good on the surface, we must take the good with the bad. In essence, longer lifespans are creating a need to address the aging brain’s cognitive decline. To this end, a recent study “found that brain function and cognition significantly improved in patients who made lifestyle changes.”[1]
The research comes as the gap widens between lifespan and healthspan—the number of years spent in good health. Americans are living longer on average, leaving more time to develop age-related diseases including dementia. New cases of dementia will double by 2060 to roughly one million annually….[1]
Researchers found that one’s lifestyle plays a big role in one’s healthspan. To this end, in time-based testing of brain cognition, over 70% of the participants who made lifestyle changes showed improvement or no decline vs 0% improvement in the control group including 68% whose results revealed declines. In fact, the earlier you intervene, the less intensive the lifestyle changes that are likely needed to prevent it.
So, what do these lifestyle changes look like?[1]
- Diet: A whole-foods, minimally processed vegan diet, low in harmful fats, refined carbs and sweeteners…
- Exercise: At least 30 minutes daily of moderate aerobic exercise and mild strength training at least three times a week…
- Stress management: One hour a day of techniques, including meditation, stretching and breathing exercises… Adequate sleep was encouraged.
- Support: Participants and their partners or spouses attended one-hour support-group sessions three times a week, focusing on emotional support…
As the old saying goes: Forewarned is forearmed!
Please check out the rest of this week’s blog: https://moworksinitiative.org/category/worker-wellness-news/
How Your Meditation Supports Others
Loneliness: How to Find Friends
Putting Off Check-ups & Screenings?
Harvard Appeals Bargaining Unit 2x
Opening Old Wounds: Renaming Renamed Army Bases
Impact: ICE Raids on Construction?
Medicine’s Impact on Employment
Youth Redefining Workplace Success
US Researchers: Europe is Hiring
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NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact jgaal@moworks.org with related questions or comments.
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