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Corporate Wellness Plan Ideas: Living Healthy Initiatives

admin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:34:09 +0000

• Offer Stress management and mental health Initiatives
• Offer substance use and abuse Initiatives
• Offer smoking cessation and control
• Offer nutrition counselling
• Offer weight control Initiatives and counselling
• Offer promote use of food logs
• Offer posting BMI charts
• Offer juice dispensing machines
• Offer water coolers
• Offer snack machines with low-calorie snack choices
• Offer snack machines with fruit, vegetable and calcium choices
• Posting nutritional information on snack machines
• Offer color-coded cafeteria choices
• Encourage breakfast – suggest choices to start the day
• healthy packed lunch ideas for adults and kids
• partnering with local restaurants for healthy lunch choices
• healthy recipes on-line
• healthy or low-cost cooking Initiatives
• healthy shopping instruction
• naturopaths, homeopaths, herbal remedies and vitamins
• Offer information sessions on fad diets
• Offer disease prevention information
• STD’s
• active living and fitness Initiatives such as a aerobics, walking or cycling clubs
• Offer self-defense training
• Offer relaxation training
• chiropractors
• relaxation and energy specialists
• Offer stretching classes such as yoga, tai chi
• Offer active living challenges
• walking challenges with pedometers
• stair climbing challenge
• sleep and sleep disorders e.g. snoring
• napping information and sleep rooms
• alertness and driving sessions
• encouraging light breaks
• create a wellness Yellow Pages
• information sessions on
• insect bites,
• memory enhancement,
• motion sickness,
• nose bleeds,
• healthy skin,
• frost bite,
• gingivitis and mouth care,
• hair loss,
• ear infections,
• fever,
• psoriasis,
• TMJ,
• varicose veins,
• shingles,
• defensive driving,
• sun safety,
• avoiding home and vehicle theft,
• food safety
• handwashing

**Healthy Living Initiatives should assist in the development of self-efficacy which means that the individual has a senses that they can influence the course of events in their normal daily life, that they can deal with their normal consequences, that they feel confident and sure of themselves.

Corporate Wellness Plan Ideas: Living Healthy Initiatives

admin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:32:47 +0000