World Wellness Weekend

This year represents the 5th year of World Wellness Weekends and the second year that it will be in Austin, Texas. World Wellness Weekend is a health, wellness, and sustainable living festival that is dedicated to educating and empowering people to be healthier and happier. The festival takes place this weekend, May 30th through June 1st at the Austin Convention Center.

World Wellness Events

The World Wellness Weekend will include speakers such as; Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love), Bill Phillips (Body for Life), Marci Shimoff (Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out), and John Gray (Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus); will be providing tips and sharing experiences on how to live better and healthier.

Musical entertainment provided by Michael Franti, Papa Mali, Carolyn Wonderland, Afrofreque will fill the air of the convention center with the sounds of the world. There will even be an Eco-Fashion show this year that will feature fun and sustainably produced fashion.

World Wellness Expo

The wellness expo will feature over 150 booths and 80 classes, presentations and workshops that will teach attendees all about living a better life. Attendees will learn creating financial prosperity, healthy relationships, better lifestyles, as well as to improve physical, mental and emotional health.

This will be an interactive event that invites attendees to sample organic and healthy foods, to sample new nutritional products, enjoy a mini-massage and shop for hand-crafted items by local and global artisans.

World Wellness

The World Wellness Weekend represents the increase and interest in the importance of living a healthier lifestyle and to make healthier choices for yourself and your loved ones. Corporations can share this concern by encouraging their employees to pay more attention to their wellness and their health habits. EmployeeWellnessUSA.com offers valuable advice and information on how employers can help their employees live better.

Employee Wellness in Prevention of NCD’s

The 61st annual World Health Assembly is taking place this week in Geneva, Switzerland and at this assembly; the World Health Organization (WHO) is presenting its report titled “Preventing Non-communicable Diseases (NCD) in the Workplace through Diet and Physical Activity.”

The report calls for workplace wellness programs to be promoted and implemented worldwide.

Importance of Employee Wellness

The report states that NCD related deaths have surpassed transferable disease related deaths and have become the leading global killers. Examples of NCD’s are heart disease, diabetes and stroke. In 2005, 60% of worldwide projected deaths were caused by non-communicable diseases. They are predicting that this health trend will continue through at least 2030.

Unhealthy diets, excessive caloric intake, lack of physical activity and tobacco use are the major risk factors in the cause of NCD’s. Now more than ever, the understanding of the importance of health and wellness is crucial.

Employee Wellness is Effective Tool

The report states that workplace wellness programs are found to be effective in improving health-related risk factors, such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes. The report also states that wellness programs will improve the health of employees, improve the corporate image, improve employee morale, reduce employee absences and sick leave, increase employee productivity, and reduce corporate health care costs.

Employee Wellness Monitoring

Finally, the report mentions that to have a successful employee wellness program, monitoring and evaluation through health risk assessments and health outcomes are essential and should be included in the wellness program implementation. The evaluations ensure that the program developed meets the proper needs of the employees. Employees should be reevaluated on an on-going basis to make sure the wellness program is still working, or to see if there are any adjustments that need to be made.

Start an Employee Wellness Program

Employee Wellness USA can get your company started on the right track to reducing the risks of non-communicable diseases within your staff. Please contact one of our health representatives and they will be more than happy to assist you with putting together a free wellness proposal.

Wellness Challenges Are Popping Up Everywhere

Wellness Challenges are definitely hot right now and they are encouraging more and more people to get healthy and live better. Whether it is a city or a school or a social group or even a whole state, competitive spirits are being ignited by the challenge to be the healthiest team. The challenges are usually about a six months to a year in length and they are made up of several teams, these teams all get points for physical activity, selecting healthy foods, and just making better life and health choices overall.

The best part about wellness challenges is even though there really is only way “real” winner; everyone that participates in the challenge is a life winner.

Wellness Challenges Provides Incentive to Get Healthy

Establishing a wellness challenge in your office is a great way to get employees to participate in your established wellness program. Have employees form teams and receive points for everything from attending a corporate health fair to getting a health risk assessment to starting an exercise regimen. At the end of the year, the teams will win prizes based on the number of points they have accumulated.

Wellness Challenge Kick-Off

Contact Employee Wellness USA and have our team come out and provide on-site health screening for all participating employees, so that everyone has a baseline to judge their improvement from. We will then work with you to create a wellness program that will be the foundation of the challenge.

Wellness Challenges Improve Corporate Health

Not only will wellness challenges improve the health of your employees, it will improve the overall health of the corporation by providing benefits such as reduced injuries, reduced frequency of worker’s comp, reduced healthcare costs, better employee attendance, and better corporate morale.

Like we said earlier, everyone is a winner in a wellness challenge!