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08
Feb 2011
Posted by Lesley
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Tuesday Tip: Take care of your ticker

In honor of American Heart Month, we’ve got a couple of posts about how to best care for your ticker. Cardiovascular diseases, including stroke, are the number one killer in the U.S. Here are six no-drug approaches that anyone can take for prevention.

    1. Load up on fiber and good fats

    A high-fiber diet with plenty of good fats (think omega-3) can control inflammation of the arteries, a risk factor for heart disease.

    2. Go easy on the cholesterol and salt

    Got high LDL (bad) cholesterol? Limit your daily intake of cholesterol to 200 milligrams of cholesterol a day (roughly the amount in one egg yolk).

    3. Belly fat is bad

    The tire around your middle increases blood pressure, causes insulin resistance, and produces substances that inflame the arteries. Keep it 40 inches or less if you’re a man and 35 inches of less if you’re a woman.

    4. Get sweaty

    Get out there and get some aerobic exercise, along with strength training.

    5. Get Zen

    Your daily anxiety attack could be negatively affecting your heart. Chill out and curb negative thoughts and emotions.

    6. Easy on the booze and cut out the cigs

    Enough said.

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18
Feb 2010
Posted by Leah
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Get fit, be fabulous

As part of the company’s commitment to employee health, Monitronics is rolling out a complete wellness program called MI Health. The company has partnered with the Methodist Hospital System to provide employees with a roust health and wellness program.

“A healthy, happy employee is our ultimate goal and MI Health will contribute to that by making our work environment more fulfilling and dynamic,” said Sherrie O’ Keefe, Director of Human Resources. “It’s part of our company mission to create this kind of workplace and I’m excited to see the ways employees make use of these new opportunities.”

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The first part of MI Health that will be available is a health risk assessment (HRA) and biometrics.This will include (at no cost to the employee!):

    * Previous health information and family history
    * Finger prick blood draw for cholesterol–total, HDL, and LDL, and triglyceride levels, as well as blood sugar data
    * Blood pressure
    * Body composition analysis

About ten days after completing both the HRA and the other tests, Methodist will mail an individual report to each participating employee, a health summary. This is the foundation of the MI Health program and to participate in other activities, an employee will need to complete it.

The next step in the MI Health initiative will be to bring in a Methodist Hospital Wellness Coordinator, who will be at Moni three days a week.  The coordinator will use the results of the HRA to to determine the components we will include this year in the MI Health program, like classes. The actual activities, classes, and events will then be announced.

Monitronics is covering all the costs associated with the HRA andsince the Wellness Coordinator is a Methodist employee, all information are confidential. The company is only provided company totals, not individual information.

Monitronics has been focusing more on wellness, sponsoring a team in the December White Rock Marathon and updating the fitness room that same month to include an elliptical machine, treadmill, two exercise bikes, work-out and walking videos, stretch bands, hand weights, a Wii, and more.

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30
Dec 2009
Posted by Leah
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Fitness room sports new gear, open 24/7

Fitness is now available to Monitronics employees all day, every day.

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The exercise room has moved to first floor two doors down from the Ouachita Conference Room and includes a treadmill, elliptical machine, two balance balls, work-out and walking videos, stretch bands, hand weights, and a scale. An air bike and recumbent bike will be delivered by Monday and there’s a new Wii Fit that can be checked out from the loss prevention desk on the first floor of the main tower (you’ll need to sign a waiver of liability before checking it out).

This is part of the commitment by the company to help employees meet fitness goals and stay in shape and is one piece of a wellness initiative called “MI Health.”

“MI Health is a targeted strategy to promote a healthy and dynamic work environment [since] part of our company mission is ‘to provide our Monitronics’ team with a positive and fulfilling work environment,’” said Sherrie O’Keefe, director of human resources. “We believe that MI Health will help create an even stronger work environment than we enjoy today.”

As part of MI Health, O’Keefe is sending out an employee survey next week to obtain information about what employees would like included in the program. There is a whole pallet of possibilities and O’Keefe said she wants to start with those that Monitronics employees most want implemented.

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