{"id":7621,"date":"2017-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/healthy-lifestyle-changes-could-save-economy-7b-over-five-years-suggests-prof\/"},"modified":"2017-09-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T05:00:00","slug":"healthy-lifestyle-changes-could-save-economy-7b-over-five-years-suggests-prof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/healthy-lifestyle-changes-could-save-economy-7b-over-five-years-suggests-prof\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy lifestyle changes could save economy $7B over five years, suggests prof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few small changes to your lifestyle could have a huge impact on your life &#8211; and the economy. Although it may not be the reason your company has started a wellness program, the potential results are hard to ignore.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/benefits\/health-benefits\/healthy-lifestyle-changes-could-save-economy-7b-in-five-years-suggest-professor-104049\">Healthy lifestyle changes could save economy $7B over five years, suggests prof<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>BestLifeRewarded Innovations Inc. has launched a research project aimed at demonstrating how small changes in behaviour could make a significant difference in both employee health and its economic burden on employers. The project focuses on five modifiable risk factors: physical inactivity, smoking, excess weight, use of alcohol and low vegetable and fruit consumption.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few small changes to your lifestyle could have a huge impact on your life &#8211; and the economy. Although it may not be the reason your company has started a wellness program, the potential results are hard to ignore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HealthyHabits-Nutrition-123RF.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,113,41],"class_list":{"0":"post-7621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthy_eating","10":"tag-small_business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}