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- Big Majority Of Employees In State Health Plan Take Deal: Their Current Information In Return For Breaks On Out-of-pocket Costs
A program that promotes preventive health care and wellness initiatives has been embraced by Kentucky state employees who chose the Living Well health insurance plan. The plan is called the Living Well Promise and was created in a partnership between...
- How To Help Your Child Lose Weight? Lose Weight Yourself
If parents want to help their children lose weight, they should lose weight themselves, a new study shows. "Parents are the most significant people in a child's environment, serving as the first and most important teachers," said Kerri N. Boutelle,...
- Five Ways To Fight Childhood Obesity
By Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom Last week?s Weight of the Nation meeting in Washington, DC, put a lot of emphasis on fighting childhood obesity ? what I like to call ?family obesity.? You may not know that UPMC program, the Pittsburgh Healthy Kids Project,...
- The Truth About Fruit
By Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom Fruit is one of nature?s perfect carbohydrates ? filled with fiber, water, and nutrients. With naturally-occurring fruit sugar (fructose), it?s also referred to as ?nature?s candy,? perfect for taming a sweet-tooth. Nowadays,...
- Are Your Scared Of Your Scale?
We all have a love/hate relationship with the scale. How many times have you had a good day or a bad day, based on the number on the scale? I?ve been there hundreds, no, thousands of times! We have to work against that ? and make the scale just one of...
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Humana plan members can join Weight Watchers free for six months, get 'a significant discount thereafter,' companies say
Humana Inc. and Weight Watchers International Inc. are teaming up to help employers attack the rising level of obesity and its health-related impacts.
Employees in Humana-managed, employer-sponsored health plans now have free and discounted access to Weight Watchers through an integrated wellness program built into their health plan, the first program of its kind, the two companies said in a news release.
Plan members who want to lose weight can join Weight Watchers free for six months, "and at a significant discount thereafter," the release said. "Weight Watchers helps people adopt a healthier lifestyle that results in achieving and learning to maintain a healthy weight."
Remke Markets, a family-owned grocer with 12 locations in Kentucky and Ohio, is offering the program to its 900 employees.
?What I like about this program is that it actively connects people who want to get to a healthy weight with a trusted, well-known and effective program, and then helps make it affordable,? President Matthew Remke said. ?The health risk that extra weight poses for our associates and their families is reason enough to want to attack the problem, but there are also serious consequences of an unhealthy workforce for an employer trying to compete in a tough marketplace.?
Employees in Humana-managed, employer-sponsored health plans now have free and discounted access to Weight Watchers through an integrated wellness program built into their health plan, the first program of its kind, the two companies said in a news release.
Plan members who want to lose weight can join Weight Watchers free for six months, "and at a significant discount thereafter," the release said. "Weight Watchers helps people adopt a healthier lifestyle that results in achieving and learning to maintain a healthy weight."
Remke Markets, a family-owned grocer with 12 locations in Kentucky and Ohio, is offering the program to its 900 employees.
?What I like about this program is that it actively connects people who want to get to a healthy weight with a trusted, well-known and effective program, and then helps make it affordable,? President Matthew Remke said. ?The health risk that extra weight poses for our associates and their families is reason enough to want to attack the problem, but there are also serious consequences of an unhealthy workforce for an employer trying to compete in a tough marketplace.?
- Big Majority Of Employees In State Health Plan Take Deal: Their Current Information In Return For Breaks On Out-of-pocket Costs
A program that promotes preventive health care and wellness initiatives has been embraced by Kentucky state employees who chose the Living Well health insurance plan. The plan is called the Living Well Promise and was created in a partnership between...
- How To Help Your Child Lose Weight? Lose Weight Yourself
If parents want to help their children lose weight, they should lose weight themselves, a new study shows. "Parents are the most significant people in a child's environment, serving as the first and most important teachers," said Kerri N. Boutelle,...
- Five Ways To Fight Childhood Obesity
By Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom Last week?s Weight of the Nation meeting in Washington, DC, put a lot of emphasis on fighting childhood obesity ? what I like to call ?family obesity.? You may not know that UPMC program, the Pittsburgh Healthy Kids Project,...
- The Truth About Fruit
By Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom Fruit is one of nature?s perfect carbohydrates ? filled with fiber, water, and nutrients. With naturally-occurring fruit sugar (fructose), it?s also referred to as ?nature?s candy,? perfect for taming a sweet-tooth. Nowadays,...
- Are Your Scared Of Your Scale?
We all have a love/hate relationship with the scale. How many times have you had a good day or a bad day, based on the number on the scale? I?ve been there hundreds, no, thousands of times! We have to work against that ? and make the scale just one of...