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HealthBeat contains articles of health care and industry professionals discussing medical conditions affecting the trucking industry.
Professional drivers and transportation workers are a vulnerable occupational group with significant adverse health outcomes.
Now that many of you are sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an opportunity to focus on forming healthy habits!
To date, the resulting disease, COVID-19, is responsible for over 124,000 infectious cases and 4,600 deaths spanning 118 countries/territories.
Wide loads mean larger waist sizes. If you want to avoid placing a caution sign on your back, checkout Bob Perry’s 5 Tips and detour an unnecessary accident! Getting back to good health takes planning.
Sometimes common sense is what’s required to jump start a healthy lifestyle. Jennifer McGregor points out, “You have to be willing to make improvements from your head to your toes.”
It’s common knowledge that exercising is beneficial to your health, in some cases, even life saving. So why isn’t everyone exercising?
Michele Geraldi is a Prevent Health Coach. She hopes her experience of losing (and keeping off!) 80 lbs herself will encourage others.
National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health say truckers are twice likely to have pre diabetes than the general population and may even be higher
Introducing the Omada Health Program – CDC project on diabetes prevention
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