Group Training: Fancy Your Fitness
Why do people continue to spend money on group fitness exercise classes when they have the ability to do a similar workout for free in the comfort of their own home? If you have ever started a home workout then…
What’s the Doctor got to do with it?
Have you ever considered how much influence the relationship with your health care provider has on your health? When selecting a healthcare provider to work with, are there certain things you look for, or standards you have? Or is it…
Myth: Cleaning products are clean.
Truth: Commonly-used traditional cleaning products contain many harmful ingredients. You might be concerned about the toxins you come into contact with outside of your home, such as cigarette smoke, pollutants from nearby factories or the pesticides in food, but have…
Myth: Diet soda is better for you than regular soda
Myth: Diet soda is better for you than regular soda. Truth: Replacing regular soda with diet soda may be more problematic. It’s safe to say that most of us have accepted that soda and other sugar-laden beverages do not have…
Nutrition Facts Labels – MYSTERY SOLVED!
Have you ever noticed that a food label is generally only found on processed and packaged items? That is because whole foods - such as fruit, vegetables, fresh meat, and seafood - do not need a nutrition label since they…
Is it Time for an Employee Benefits Consulting Tune Up?
Employee benefits packages are a tremendous component of public sector employer’s budgets, employee retention and recruiting efforts. An employer of 3,000 employees or more may need to budget upwards of 20 to 26 million annually towards employee health benefits. For…
Myth: Fat causes heart disease and should be avoided.
Myth: Fat causes heart disease and should be avoided. Truth: Fat is essential and should not be avoided on the basis of heart disease fears. Fat has been a topic of concern for the last 40 years based upon the…
Myth: Eggs Raise Cholesterol and Cause Heart Disease
Truth: The cause of heart disease goes beyond cholesterol alone, and eggs do not increase heart disease based on conclusions of the most valid research studies available. If you weren’t already skeptical of the nutrition headlines before, reading that eggs…
Open Enrollment Essentials
If you’re an employee of a school district in Arizona, open enrollment is close at hand! Your employer is making final benefit vendor selections and rate decisions right now, laying the critical groundwork to roll out benefits to employees for…
A Testimonial from Jan Cordova
Here at Valley Schools, we are a beneficial resource for you as an employer for your school district or other governmental agency. But don’t just take it from us, hear from one of our members, Jan Cordova... “I…