We are enjoying meeting the members of SHRM at the Kentucky SHRM convention at the Kentucky International Convention Center.  We have seen a lot of or friends and made a lot of new friends and contacts.   If you haven’t stopped by,  join us at booth 113 tomorrow to register to win a one hour massage.   Enjoy the convention!

For more information on affordable fun corporate wellness programs go toMyhealth-Mylife.com

Louisville Health Check is proud to host the health fair as part of the 8th Annual Ken-Ducky Derby

Saturday September 24, 2011 at Waterfront Park

This is the 8th annual Ken-Ducky Derby providing a day of fun for the entire family. It is the annual fund raiser for Harbor House of Louisville. “Harbor House was founded in 1992 by the parents of eleven men and women with mental retardation, developmental disabilities and brain injuries to create a safe and supportive environment in which their sons and daughters could gain the benefits of a regular job.”

You can adopt your Ken-Ducky Derby Duck at the event or at any Krogers or Starbucks location. Enjoy a day of family fun including: Live Music, Inflatables, and a Great Health Fair from Louisville Health Check. “Live musical entertainment, including world famous Louisville Leopard Percussionists, the Louisville School of Rock, and The Jaywalkers. Inflatable bounce houses, “Make and Take” craft items, face painting, arts and crafts booths, food and vendor booths, corn hole tournament.”

Admission is Free and you can win great prizes.

Check out the Harbor House Ken-Ducky Derby website @ http://www.duckrace.com/Default.aspx?alias=www.duckrace.com/louisville

“Adopt a duck, win a car, improve a life”

Louisville Health Check provides Health Fairs, Biometric Screenings, Lunch and Learns and other health related services for Companies and Organizations in and around Louisville, KY.

Louisville Health Check is proud to host the health fair at the Ken-Ducky Derby on Saturday September 24, 2011 at Waterfront Park. This is the 8th annual Ken-Ducky Derby provides a day of fun for the entire family. It is the annual fund raiser for Harbor House of Louisville. “Harbor House was founded in 1992 by the parents of eleven men and women with mental retardation, developmental disabilities and brain injuries to create a safe and supportive environment in which their sons and daughters could gain the benefits of a regular job.”
You can adopt your Ken-Ducky Derby Duck at any Krogers or Starbucks location. Enjoy a day of family fun including:
Live Music, Inflatables, Great Health Fair from Louisville Health Check.

“Live musical entertainment, including world famous Louisville Leopard Percussionists, the Louisville School of Rock, and The Jaywalkers. Inflatable bounce houses, “Make and Take” craft items, face painting, arts and crafts booths, food and vendor booths, corn hole tournament and so much MORE!”

Admission is Free and you can win great prizes. Check out the Harbor House Ken-Ducky Derby website at http://www.duckrace.com/Default.aspx?alias=www.duckrace.com/louisville

Over 20,000 rubber ducks will be dropped in the river for the race. ” Adopt a duck, win a car, improve a life”

Louisville Health Check provides health fairs and biometric testing for a large number of Louisville’s companies and churches.  ”Giving people information about their health allows them to make better decisions and live better lives.  We have partnered with an online wellness company to provide ongoing Wellness Programs for churches, corporations and individuals.  People are asking for more.  They want more health fairs, more tracking, and more social support.   My Health, My Life, My World LLC fills that gap.  This lets us bring promote wellness on a much larger scale.”

Check us out at  My Health My Life My World

June 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.

So 2010 is coming to a close, which for most people, means it’s time to start thinking about a New Year’s resolution. These normally involve some sort of get-in-shape, weight loss plan, and while it’s important to workout and stay healthy, taking steps to improve your health should go beyond a morning jog and a set of crunches.

That’s where the Healthy People 2010 Initiative can help. It’s an initiative that dictates wellness programs to be in all schools and government offices, and encourages corporations to voluntarily follow its protocols. Healthy People 2010 requires doctors to educate employees on wellness programs and lifestyle changes, with a focus on stress, better nutrition, weight loss, and exercise. Right now, though, there is a shortage of doctors to deliver these programs, so many companies are turning to Louisville Health Check to get their wellness program started.

Louisville Health Check is an organization that provides corporate health fairs, screenings, and health education workshops to businesses in eastern Jefferson County. They come to your office, offering no-or-low cost preventative screenings and services to employees for things like blood pressure, carpal tunnel, ergonomic posture, body fat analysis, cholesterol, and blood glucose.

Their health education workshops are a great way to provide a real benefit to employees, help detect potential problems, and give them a better grasp on their own personal health.

While crunches are good for your physique, keeping your inner health in check is also important to ward off silent killers and help you achieve and maintain an overall healthful lifestyle.

Speaker:                 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—

Contact us for  more information.

Louisville Health Check provides low cost/no cost lunch lectures to businesses in Eastern Louisville and Jefferson County KY.  www.louisvillehealthcheck.com

Who is handling your enrollment fair this year?    Louisville Health Check and Lowe Chiropractic can help.  Providing Turn Key, On-Site, No-Cost/Low Cost Health Fairs for your company.

Enrollment fairs benefit your company is several ways.  By coupling the annual Insurance Enrollment process with a Health Fair, employees feel how much you care.  Enrollment fairs bring a new level of energy and excitement to your event and help to increase attendance.

3 Reasons Employers Don’t Do Enrollment Fair

#1  Cost. It is expensive and not in the budget!       Louisville Health Check provides No-Cost/Low-Cost Health Fairs

#2  Time. It is time consuming, calling and organizing all of the providers!    Louisville Health Check has a group of Health Care Professionals donating their time and knowledge for these events.

#3  Size. Our company is too small for an enrollment fair.   Louisville Health Check has options for many size organizations.

Louisville Health Check provides Turn-Key, On-Site, No-Cost/Low-Cost Enrollment Fairs for companies and organizations in Downtown and East Louisville, KY.   Louisville Health Check can be reached at (502) 417-7708