Keep Educating Your Employees about Healthy Heart Month

February is "Go Red" all month. It is a great idea to continue educating your employees about healthy hearts. Another seminar idea is "Understanding the Risks of Cardiovascular Disease". Many employees are clueless about their own personal risk factors. A place to begin:
Have a lunch and learn to review conditions or behaviors that increase employees chances of getting a certain disease. Here are some points to discuss:

• The risk factors for coronary heart disease which can be treated or controlled
• The more risk factors, the greater your risk of developing coronary heart disease.
• The higher your level of each risk factor, the greater your risk of developing coronary heart disease.

Review risk factors:

• Men 45 years or older
• Women 60 years or older
• Family history of heart disease
  

Review Controllable Risk Factors

• Blood Pressure
• Smoking
• Overweight
• Cholesterol Levels
• Activity Level
• Diabetes Control
• Stress!!!!!!

Use a black board, start an open discussion and create ideas on how to reasonably address each one of these issues http://www.americanheart.org, then reward the group with delicious smoothies or fruit salad. Enjoy!