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Louisville’s Health Problems discussed in New York Post
Posted by: | CommentsJune 13, 2011, The New York Times published an article stating, “More than 6 out of 10 people in metro Louisville are still considered seriously overweight.” Public officials are making headway now and planning for 10 years down the road. The article later quoted former Mayor Jerry Abramson, “For businesses, a healthy work force is more productive and less costly, so it becomes a competitiveness issue.”
The fact remains that we spend more of our waking, fully conscious hours at work and around our coworkers. Employers have more ability to influence healthy choices than do city officials. Creating a “work culture of wellness” spills over into a community culture of wellness.
As with most problems, the first step to solving the problem is identifying and accepting that a problem exists. I can’t tell you how many times we do a health fair, take someone’s blood pressure and hear them say “I never knew I had high blood pressure.” The person leaves the health fair and gets on medications to regulate their blood pressure. That’s just the start, to really reduce their risk; some lifestyle changes must be addressed. These lifestyle changes include better eating habits and increasing physical activity.
The blood pressure is just part of a bigger metabolic problem known as Syndrome X or the Deadly Quartet.
The four components of Syndrome X are:
Central obesity
High blood sugar
High cholesterol
High blood pressure
A patient is diagnosed with Syndrome X when two or more of these problems are present. Syndrome X is very dangerous and costly, changing the risk factors means affecting the patient’s weight and creating a culture of wellness. The good news, small changes in the workplace can have a huge impact on a person’s health.
To learn more about Worksite Wellness programs and other Louisville Health Check resources, contact Cathy Head at (502) 693-9144
Patrick Lowe, D.C.
Louisville Health Check provides low cost health fairs, lunch and learns and wellness programs for Louisville, KY surrounding areas.
ShareLess Stress for the Holiday Season
Posted by: | CommentsSpeaker: Let’s talk about the holiday! What do people get stressed about the holidays? Any ideas? Money! Shopping for what? For any gift—
Running through the mall and for your loved one, does any gift going to make it? Is it going to do? I’ve got you something! (Dr. Lowe hands a crumpled piece of paper to an audience member) Right? We don’t want that! So we get stressed because we wanted to let them have the perfect Christmas, the perfect gift and it can all be done without having to fight traffic, with all of these other things that you want to do, right?
And then, we go along we don’t want to worry about the shipping. Did you guys forget where I live? What’s the deal with that or if you start in July, then you worry about something else when you get to December.
So we’re going to talk about some of the ideas on stress. I am going to talk about how to beat stress, I’m going to talk about how to manage stress, no we’re not. We’re going to talk about how to overcome stress!
One thing that causes me the most stress in my life is trying to manage and beat things that I can’t manage or beat! That’s like managing time. Can you actually manage time? It moves with or without you! You can try and manage yourself within the time, but try and manage and budget other people within that time is a lot harder, isn’t it? Try and manage your kid’s schedules, getting everybody where they need to be when they need to be there. It causes stress.
So let’s talk about some fun ways to beat stress! First of all, let’s talk about the different types of stress! What types of stress are there? Let’s talk about exactly what kinds of stress during the holidays, some of the main causes—it might be in-laws that causes stress?
You don’t cause any stress—
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