Your employees are your business. With health care expenses at an all time high, an ounce of prevention is truly worth a pound of cure. According to Money Magazine, the average employee who uses tobacco loses four weeks of productivity in a years' time. That's four weeks out of fifty-two.

Imagine what that extra month of productivity could do for your bottom line.

As for the ever growing problem of obesity, work-related stress is a big factor. According to medical researcher Zofia Zukowska, in a Georgetown University medical report published July 1, 2007; the combination of stress in our modern society and readily available junk food is causing a dangerous upswing in obesity. "It's the combination of stress and the high- fat, high sugary rich diet--that is the humongous combo. There is some kind of interaction going on," said Zukowska. In a series of experiments on mice, researchers showed the neurochemical pathway they indentified promotes fat growth in chronically stressed animals that eat the equivalent of a junk food diet.

"By treating the mice the way humans are treated, which is introducing a chronic stress from which they cannot escape and introducing this abundance of food, we mimicked what happens in American society," said Zukowska.

Does this sound like your break room?

Amy Hibberd can help. Hypnosis is the time tested, non-invasive way to bring about lasting change. Amy Hibberd has the experience to help your employees gain control over addictions to drugs, alcohol, tobacco and food. She has also worked with employee groups and individuals for sales motivation, emotional skills, leadership in action, public speaking, art of persuasion, and personal magnetism.