 Healthy Steps
Healthy Steps was created to expand opportunities for employees
to learn and practice healthful behaviors and to integrate health and
wellness into all aspects of work and personal life.
Changes in lifestyles, such as quitting tobacco or getting enough
exercise, can drastically reduce the risk for chronic disease as well
as improve existing health conditions. Even though we may need to make
several changes in our lives, like eating a healthier diet or reducing
stress, it is difficult to trade all of our bad habits for good ones
all at once.
Most of us can successfully alter one lifestyle at a time. Once the
change has become a habit we can then focus on another lifestyle that
needs improvement.
Healthy Steps will include one new theme each month and is
designed to help us as individuals make small but important changes in
our lifestyles that will reduce our risks of disease. The topic
information and suggestions will be sent to all by the first Monday of
each month. The themes will coincide with the observance of nationally
promoted health and wellness topics to capitalize on media focus of
each topic. Staff chairs, sections leaders and department heads are
asked to allow time and to appoint a lead person to briefly explain
the topic at the first scheduled staff/faculty meeting of the month.
The groups will discuss and decide which small changes that they as
individuals can make to improve their lifestyles. Once identified,
individuals will incorporate the small changes into their everyday
life, which hopefully will lead to a new healthy habit. Pertinent
educational material currently employed in Extension program or in
development will be utilized for the training.
Let's work together for a "Healthier" Extension by taking
Healthy Steps in our own lives and by encouraging others to do the
same.
We especially want to hear from you as to what works and your
success stories.
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