Worksite Wellness Plan Ideas: Healthy Living Strategies

by Worksite Wellness on February 6, 2009

• Provide Stress Management Programs and mental health Strategies
• Provide substance use and abuse Strategies
• Provide smoking cessation and control
• Provide nutrition counselling
• Provide weight control Strategies and counselling
• Provide encourage use of food logs
• Provide posting BMI charts
• Provide juice dispensing machines
• Provide water coolers
• Provide snack machines with low-calorie snack choices
• Provide snack machines with fruit, vegetable and calcium choices
• Posting nutritional information on snack machines
• Provide 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 Strategies
• healthy shopping instruction
• naturopaths, homeopaths, herbal remedies and vitamins
• Provide information sessions on fad diets
• Provide disease prevention information
• STD’s
• active living and fitness Strategies such as a aerobics, walking or cycling clubs
• Provide self-defense training
• Provide relaxation training
• chiropractors
• relaxation and energy specialists
• Provide stretching classes such as yoga, tai chi
• Provide 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 Strategies 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.

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