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.