Successful employers understand that workplace wellness programs need to reach beyond just physical fitness. Wellness workshops can provide a wide variety of useful health education topics in an interactive and engaging format. Hosting professional speakers to educate employees on issues that may be affecting their overall health can create positive behavior change and drive health initiatives within the organization.
Here are some tips to ensure your wellness workshops are successful:
Provide food. The best time to offer a workshop is during the lunch hour. If employees need to push deadlines or cancel meetings to attend, turnout drops significantly. And free food always draws a crowd.
Don’t make them mandatory. Health education is a choice and should not be forced. Successful workshops are filled with engaged participants, not those busy constantly checking their watch.
Make sure your topics are relevant to your workforce. Do your employees work long hours in a high-stress environment? Try a work-life balance workshop. Are food options onsite limited? How about a workshop on easy ways to pack a healthy lunch? If you know your employees, you know the issues they are faced with.
Hosting wellness workshop for your employees shows that you care about their health and well-being, which leads to improved morale and greater retention rates.
Curtis Health has a wide variety of workshops offered at an affordable cost. Contact us today and find out how we can help your employees adopt healthy lifestyle choices! https://curtishealth.com/wellness-programs/workshops/
While some workplace stress is to be expected, excessive stress can interfere with productivity and performance, impact your physical and emotional health, and affect your relationships and home life. You can’t control everything in your work environment, but you can incorporate some daily activities to reduce the impact of stress in the workplace!
1. Movement
One reason your energy may be dropping at work could be that you’ve been sitting for too long. Try getting up out of your chair and moving around for at least a few minutes every hour. Try shoulder and arm circles, hip rotations, knees up, hamstring curls and reaching over the head to open up the area of your ribs. Instead of sending an email, go to your colleague’s office. Schedule a walking meeting. Take the stairs to the restroom a few floors away. Just find a reason to move around and be more active. Engaging in small bursts of physical activity can help to re-energize your body and mind.
2. Stretch it out!
Sitting at a desk can create imbalance in the body, overly emphasising certain muscles while “turning off” others. This can contribute to poor posture, back and joint pain, and more. Stretching is one of the most effective ways we can help bring the body into muscular balance.
3. Breath & Relaxation
We can completely change our physiological, mental and emotional state with deeper, more effective breathing and mindful relaxation.
Nostril Breathing: Breathing through the nose as oppose to the mouth warms the breath and has an immediate calming effect as it brings us into our parasympathetic nervous system (our rest and relax system).
Abdominal Breathing: Initiating our breath in the belly uses the largest and lowest regions of the lungs, contributing to more oxygen and vital energy in the body as well as increased lung capacity.
Extended exhales: When it comes to releasing tension, the exhalation is of the most importance. Elongating the exhalation will further sedate the nervous system.
These breathing exercises can be learned in order (the nostril breathing being the most foundational) or they can be combined as a complete breathing practice as the practitioner becomes more experienced.
Guided Relaxation- Guided relaxation helps to replace our busy thoughts with a journey through the body and mind. This could include but is not limited to a conscious relaxing of the body, a positive visualization, or mindset exercises.
Curtis Health has a wide variety of programs to help your employees combat stress and improve health in the workplace. Contact us today to find out how!
Designing an employee wellness program can seem overwhelming. How do you address the individual health needs of an entire workforce? Sometimes, you just need to know where to start.
Determine the needs of your employees. Crunching data on lost productivity only tells us one side of the story. Asking employees for input on wellness program offerings will help you determine not only which programs to put in place, but give ownership to those who will benefit the most. Surveys, wellness committees and coordination with department leaders provide valuable input.
Create a plan. Once you assess the needs of your employees, what will it take to put them into place? What is your budget? What is the level of commitment from key company leaders? How will you determine success? These are all questions that need to be addressed to start the framework of your program.
Get people involved! Now the real work starts. You’ve developed a program, but how do you increase participation? Create a marketing plan, recruit wellness ambassadors, determine incentives and coordinate with department managers to help ensure their employees have the time and resources they need to take advantage of program offerings.
Ask for constant feedback. Successful wellness programs are constantly adjusting to meet the needs of their employees. Survey data and enlisting the help of wellness committees and ambassadors can provide a steady stream of necessary information to keep your program on track.
Change is good. Adapting to the ever-changing needs of your employees is crucial to program success. Combining key data points with employee and manager feedback will lead to the advancement of your program.
With so many employers beginning to understand the need for quality wellness programming, it is important to enlist the help of industry leaders with a proven track record of success. Curtis Health has been helping individuals and companies improve the health of their workforce for over thirty years. Contact us today to find out how we can help you!
Parents know that getting kids to adopt healthy eating habits can be a daunting task. We understand how important proper nutrition is, but the combination of busy lives, picky eaters and the availability of cheap and easy meals often leads us to make poor food choices for ourselves and our children.
With the new school year upon us, here are some simple ways to start making healthy eating habits together.
Share meals together – The benefits of eating together as a family have been studied extensively. According to numerous reports issued by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA), “children who eat at least five times a week with their family are at lower risk of developing poor eating habits, weight problems or alcohol and substance dependencies, and tend to perform better academically than their peers who frequently eat alone or away from home.”
Lead by example – Children look to their parents for guidance. If you choose to take the time to prepare a meal instead of stopping for fast food, your kids will take note. Keep healthy foods on hand to avoid falling into the convenience trap.
Have your kids help – Get them involved in the cooking process from start to finish. Let them choose ingredients and help them come up with a healthy meal. Instill a sense of pride in them that comes with seeing an idea turns into a finished product.
Stock your pantry with healthy snacks – When we’re hungry (or think we’re hungry), we grab easy snacks that we think will satisfy the taste we’re craving. If the only options are healthy ones, we’ll make better choices or realize we’re not as hungry as we thought.
By following a few simple guidelines, we can create healthy habits that will last a lifetime.
When I was eight years old, I started smoking. Well, I didn’t start smoking until I was twelve. But when I was eight, I had my first cigarette.
My mother was a smoker. In 1960’s California, it was the thing to do. I remember seeing a picture of her and her friends on a beach blanket, Pacific Ocean in the background, smiling and laughing with cigarettes in hand. This same image would be used for decades by cigarette companies to show you how fun and exciting their product was.
When I was eight, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. My friend and I stole a cigarette from my mother’s pack and retreated to the side of the house. After some initial fumbling with the matches, we got it lit and puffed in the smoke, coughing and wondering why anyone would engage in such a painful activity.
In the 1980’s, things changed. Doctors and researchers were finally able to break through the deep pockets of the tobacco lobby industry and go public with news the cigarette companies did not want you to know – smoking causes serious diseases, and could kill you.
My mother continued to smoke, but thought that she could escape the potential damage by “cutting down,” a time-tested trick of the addictive mind to lessen the chances of adverse reactions to dangerous substances. She adjusted her smoking habits to deal with the shame that came with doing something that had been proven to cause serious physical problems. She hid her cigarettes from plain view, would only smoke outside, and became embarrassed if you ever caught her with one in her hand.
Even armed with so much information about the dangers of smoking, no warning is stronger than a teenager trying to fit in. My first day of high school reunited me with old friends that had attended the local Catholic school. All of them were smokers, and I wanted to be a part of their tribe. I asked to borrow a cigarette, and started a smoking habit that would span my teenage years and most of my adult life.
Over the years, my mother and I attempted to quit using every method available. Cold turkey, nicotine patches, medications, even hypnotism. Nothing worked. Some resulted in varying breaks of tobacco use, but we always returned to our addiction. In the late 1990’s, my mother and I briefly worked with one another, taking our breaks together to smoke. With every drag, came a hint of shame. For her, seeing that her habit transferred to me, and for me, showing her that even though I knew it was wrong, I was unable to quit myself.
In 2001, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. After several rounds of chemotherapy, my mother’s life was temporarily extended, but less than six months after diagnosis, she had passed away.
Even after losing my mother to a smoking-related death, I continued using tobacco. It would less frequently – with a drink, at a party or any other excuse I could dream up to justify inhaling tobacco smoke after seeing my mother buried at fifty-two from a smoking-related disease.
In 2008, my wife informed me that she was pregnant with our first child. I instantly dialed up the memory of stealing a cigarette from my mother in 1983 and lighting it up. I also remembered the constant harassment my mother was exposed to by my father and siblings for her smoking habit and the dangers associated with it.
By using these memories, I had finally had found my motivation to quit smoking forever. I wasn’t going to be responsible for giving my future child a reason to pick up a cigarette. I wasn’t going to deal with the guilt that came with the label “smoker.” And I wasn’t going to leave this world before my time because of a disease that I had brought on myself.
Finding your motivation to stop unhealthy habits can come from numerous influences. A doctor who issues a strong warning, running out of breath while playing with a child, waking up with pain instead of energy and even the overwhelming feeling of guilt that is often associated with addictive behaviors.
When you do find your motivation, it is always helpful to enlist people and programs that can help you stay on track. Aligning yourself with health professionals can turn your motivation to be healthier into positive, lifelong behaviour changes. Curtis Health has numerous programs designed to help turn your motivation to be healthier into a reality. Contact us today to find out how!
Each of the four seasons brings change and focus along with it. In the fall, we wind down summer trips and enjoy our last lazy days by the pool as we prepare for the air to cool, the sun to set a little earlier each day, and for parents, the start of a new school year. In the winter, we physically and mentally prepare ourselves for chilly weather and get excited about the upcoming holiday season. In the spring, we wake up from our winter slumbers and anxiously await the warmth of the sun and the new growth that comes along with it.
But what about the summer? Along with increasing temperatures and the excitement of upcoming vacations, it’s easy to forget to take time for yourself each day. Summer is about increasing your energy and creating joy in your life. When we hear of seasonal effective disorder, summer is usually the last season on the list.
So how can you use mindfulness to help balance summer days?
Spend time outside. While too much of the sun’s warm rays can be harmful to your skin, the right balance can have lots of mood lifting benefits. According to a Harvard Medical Study “sunlight and darkness trigger the release of hormones in your brain. Exposure to sunlight is thought to increase the brain’s release of a hormone called serotonin. This is associated with boosting mood and helping a person feel calm and focused.”
Imagine your favorite summer place. Feel the warm sun, the sounds and the smells that surround you. Smile slightly. Let the feeling of this perfect place swirl throughout your entire body. Fell yourself becoming more relaxed with each exhale.
Know when to slow down. In summer, it is easy to get swept up in upcoming travel plans or the stress that comes along with covering for coworkers who have their own. Take time to step away and re focus. Take a walk. Call a friend. Exercise. Our brains work better when we give them the intermittent breaks they need.
Try something new. Summer is about fun and excitement. Do something out of the norm, or start to check things off your bucket list. Capitalize on the spontaneous energy that summer offers.
Practice mindfulness daily, and make this summer one to remember!
Ahhhhhh…. Fruits. Most especially of the summer variety. We love them for the way they taste, as an easy snack or a flavorful complement to a salad or meal, and especially for the benefits they provide our body.
Peaches. Especially flavorful, peaches are an excellent way to satisfy a sweet tooth without packing on the calories. Peaches can be used as natural remedy for dark circles and wrinkles, being a great benefit for the skin.
Watermelons. Like a cool drink of water, watermelons are good for hydration. This fruit is a lot more than what meets the eye; they contain potassium, antioxidants, carbs, Vitamin A, B6 and C, calcium and fiber. You are doing your body good by consuming this plentiful fruit and watermelons have also been known to make refreshing drink. Bottoms up!
Blueberries. Low in calories? Works for me! This delicious fruit is low in calories because they are made up of lots of water. They also contain fiber, Vitamin C and Vitamin K and are well known for their antioxidants.
Raspberries. Add some of these little beauties to a meal and your taste buds hit the roof. Other perks, they provide vitamins and fiber and are useful for weight loss.
Strawberries. These help strengthen our immune system, a benefit not to be passed up. Also being an excellent source of vitamin C, these are a booster for eyes and skin.
Fruits can be added to almost any breakfast dish either on top or as a side. Use fruits in salads for lunch or dinner, as a garnish, or a go to in between meals!
As employee wellness programs continue to grow in popularity, it’s important to consider how you determine return on investment. Traditionally, programs used general data, such as health risk assessments and biometric screenings to determine ROI. Now, more employers are shifting the measure of success to focus on improved employee morale and increased productivity. Happy employees improve workplace morale and create a better company culture. Employees who feel supported at work are much more productive than those who become so stressed out that they start missing work.
Successful wellness programs focus on the “whole” employee, and not only individual physical achievements (weight loss, quitting smoking, increased physical fitness). By broadening the definition of wellness to go beyond physical statistics, employers can see happier employees, higher productivity and greater employee retention rates.
So how can a holistic employee wellness program benefit your company?
Improve Employee Morale
Low employee morale is usually a sign of high stress, low engagement and a lack of exercise. Successful wellness programs focus on the “whole” employee, and not only individual physical achievements (weight loss, quitting smoking, increases in physical fitness). Survey results consistently show employees are more productive when they work for an employer who takes an interest in their health. A recent poll by Refresh Leadership noted that 71% of employees consider benefits package offerings are extremely or very important to their job satisfaction.
Reduce Injuries
Injuries occur more frequently among unhealthy employees with higher risk factors. On site fitness classes such as group exercise and walking groups can increase the physical health of your employees, while health education, such as back care and tobacco cessation classes can help employees make positive lifestyle choices that reduce potential injuries.
Diminish absenteeism
When employees are sick or injured and they take time off, companies lose thousands and sometimes millions of dollars on temporary employment and downtime. Wellness programs tend to result in fewer sick days and fewer absences. According to the Health Advancement Research Organization, absenteeism was 27 percent lower for those workers who ate healthy and exercised regularly.
Improve productivity
Employees who feel better and are healthier are more productive, which improves your organization’s bottom line. Offering stress management and meditation classes can help promote mindfulness and increase productivity. Recently a Health Advancement Research Organization found that employees who ate healthy and exercised regularly improved job performance 11 percent higher than their peers who were obese.
Improve employee retention and attract talent
Employee turnover is extremely expensive, and wellness programs show employees that their employer values their health. Working for a company who cares about you as a human being leads to increased retention. In addition, offering wellness benefits demonstrates to job seekers how committed you are to the health and happiness of your employees. And the numbers are remarkable. Almost half (45%) of employees at small or mid-sized companies reported that they would stay at their jobs longer because of employer-sponsored wellness programs, according to the latest Principal Financial Well-Being Index.
Want to learn more about how an employee wellness program can benefit your company?Contact Curtis Health today to find out how we can design a program specifically designed to meet the needs of your employees.
We know, you’re busy. We all have a lot going on. No matter what good intentions you may have towards certain activities ie. reading a book, getting your nails done, working out, etc. some things simply get shoved to the back of the line as life unfolds day by day. May I make a suggestion? Make it a part of your lifestyle. Create a habit out of picking up a book every night before bed. Schedule your nail appointments 1-2 months out at the same time and day of the week. Make your workout as essential to your routine as it is to shower.. If you incorporate exercise into your lifestyle, you forfeit being able to prioritize it away because it is no longer on the list, but rather plugged in to your auto drive.
The province of BC just finished promoting Ride to Work/School week across the province. What a great initiative! This is a great example of making exercise a part of your lifestyle. How many times have you been told by a co-worker or fellow student that they ride a bike to work or school and thought “Wow, that’s really great, I wish I could do that, I would be so fit!” But how much thought have you actually given this without being deterred by the fact that your hair will get wet on a rainy day? Biking into work is a positive lifestyle choice. Choosing to be active over succumbing to the inconvenient side effects such as wet hair, etc. is a bold choice that benefits you personally and benefits the environment. AND it`s setting a great example for others. Without the people who choose to bike, there would be less people compelled to consider the option of biking. Biking to work would become routine, just as getting in a car, except now you are able to warm up and workout your muscles before starting a long day at the desk. Some people choose to run. This can also be as essential part of your day, a way to release stress and focus on yourself and challenging your body. Creating a space for mindfulness in your day by tuning out your problems and focusing on the world passing by you as you run. No matter what the exercise, it needs to work for you, be enjoyed by you, and ft into your lifestyle. Choosing an exercise to fit your lifestyle will complement you as a person, make you feel more fulfilled, and better prepared to face daily challenges. Choose to live a healthy lifestyle and choose the best exercise for you.
Blog post provided by www.postivehealthwellness.com and written by Karen Reed
Stress is a silent killer. It raises your blood pressure and puts unnecessary strain on your whole body. Your organs can’t work properly, and the stress hormones make it harder for your brain to release happy hormones.
You need to find ways to get rid of the stress from your body. While exercise is powerful, so is making a few changes to your diet. It’s time to start adding some stress-fighting foods to your meals and as snacks.
With the right foods, you get a balance of your nutrients and in the hormones in your body. You’ll also get rid of the guilty for eating foods that are just empty calories, which automatically reduces your stress and anxiety.
So, here is your ultimate list of foods that you want to start adding to your diet.
Get More Folic Acid with Asparagus
Stress and depression have been linked to low levels of folic acid. It makes sense when you remember that folic acid helps with the development of cells in the body. If your brain cells are struggling, so will your hormone levels. You need to support every aspect of your body if you want to improve the release of the right chemicals from the brain.
Asparagus is filled with folic acid. Your body will absorb more without the need of taking store-bought multivitamins. In fact, asparagus is so good that you get two-thirds of your daily intake of folic acid with just one cup of asparagus. Chances are you can eat more than that of this delicious vegetable easily.
You’ll also find that asparagus is extremely easy to cook. You can boil and grill it or even add it to your stir-fries. It works extremely well as a bed for fish or chicken. If you’re looking for a healthy snack, asparagus is something to reach out for.
Add Extra B-Vitamins with Avocado
There was once a view that avocado was bad for you. It is full of fat, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it will make you fat. It’s unsaturated fat, which is good for you and will help to line your arteries to protect your heart.
Likewise, the healthy fats will protect your brain and keep your stress hormones to a minimum. Healthy fats mean more B vitamins. They help to support the cell structure and hormonal control.
Many scientists have found that those who have low levels of B vitamins tend to suffer from depression. So, you want to boost your levels, and there’s no better way.
On top of this, the monounsaturated fats within the avocado will help to lower your blood pressure. Your body isn’t under as much stress so the happy hormones can release much quicker and easier than before.
Repair Cell Structure with Blueberries
Blueberries don’t just help to relieve stress, but they also help to battle against the damage that stress can cause. This is great news for your overall health, right?
Let’s look at the damage first. When you’re stressed, your cell structure becomes damaged. It needs your immune system to help repair the damage, but your body is suffering from the lack of nutrients. After all, your body doesn’t absorb nutrients as well when it is fighting against the stress hormones. There are high chances that you don’t have the antioxidants or vitamin C in your body to help.
Well, this is where blueberries come into play. They are filled with vitamin C and powerful antioxidants. They instantly get to work to repair damage and protect your cells against free radicals. The healthier your body is, the less stressed you will feel daily.
The best thing about blueberries is that they are extremely easy to add to your diet. You can eat them raw, add them to oats, or create ice cream with them to feel like you’re eating something naughty. You can also add them to yogurt or milk to create a smoothie. Just don’t forget to add some kale or spinach to boost your nutrition with smoothies.
Stay Calm with Dark Leafy Greens
Yes, you will want to reach for the cheeseburger when you’re stressed, but you don’t really need that. In fact, the cheeseburger or the bar of chocolate will just make you feel worse. What you really want to reach for is the dark leafy greens.
Okay, no you don’t want to reach for them, but your body needs you to reach for them. Dark leafy greens like broccoli and kale are filled with nutrients. They have iron and folate to support your cell structure and energy levels, but they’re not the best part. They also have dopamine.
Yes, dopamine is a natural nutrient and something your body will benefit from when stressed. It helps to relax the body and release the happy, painkilling hormones from your brain. These get to work to reduce a number of stress hormones that are in your body.
Dark leafy greens have proven positive in stress studies focused on students. The students who had the healthier and balanced diets had lower stress levels.
It is going to be hard to focus on the healthy diet and train your brain into craving these when you’re struggling with stress. It’s important to remember just how good they are to help calm down when you feel like you’re drowning in life.
Enjoy a Turkey Dinner
When you eat a turkey dinner at Christmas or Thanksgiving, do you ever feel tired afterward? You get that feeling of a food coma and just want to curl up and go to bed, right?
This isn’t because you’ve eaten too much but because you’ve eaten the right type of food. Turkey is full of an amino acid called tryptophan, which is completely healthy for you and something that you need to get into your system when you’re stressed.
Why do you feel so calm after getting this amino acid? Well, it releases the serotonin in your brain. This is the happy hormone that also helps to regulate your hunger and make you feel much calmer than you did before eating. There’s a satisfied feeling after eating, and your body wants you to relax and sleep afterward.
If you’re not a meat-eater, you don’t need to think that you’re going to miss out. Tryptophan is also in nuts and seeds. You can also get some from eggs, fish, tofu, beans, and even oats. There really isn’t an excuse not to get it.
The best thing about this amino acid is that some of the foods on the list will be ones that you want to reach for. You likely want to snack on something that seems bad for you when stressed. Well, what about a handful of nuts and seeds? They sound bad for you but are very good in a moderate amount.
In fact, we’ll move on them next.
Create a Stress-Friendly Trail Mix
It’s time to put some nuts, seeds, and dried fruit into a bag and create your own trail mix. Keep the dried fruits to a minimum because of the sugar, but add a few raisins, dried cranberries, and papaya just for that little bit of a sweet kick.
The benefit is that you feel like you’re eating something bad for you. You trick your brain into thinking that you’re satisfying the stress cravings of sugar and junk food. In truth, you’re getting a handful or two of healthy nuts, seeds, and nutrients.
Let’s start with the tryptophan that we mentioned above. The nuts and seeds are full of this amino acid to help with the release of the serotonin. Of course, because you feel like you’re eating something naughty that you know is good or you, your cravings are met, so you start to feel happier because of that.
Nuts are also full of healthy fats and protein. These regulate your hunger and help to support your cell growth and repair. You’ll also get more selenium, which can help to keep stress levels to a minimum. Most of us are deficient in selenium, which is often noted by that tired and drained feeling. Of course, most of us believe that it’s iron that causes this problem. When you don’t feel as tired, you can push the happy hormone through and handle situations that would usually be stressful when you’re tired.
At the same time, you get plenty of vitamins E and B. These nutrients are especially found in almonds, so make sure you add them to your trail mix—if you’re not allergic. The vitamins will boost your immune system to help protect against the damage of the stress hormones.
Reach for the Salmon
Salmon is another food that you want to add to your list when you feel stressed. While it does have some tryptophan, this amino isn’t the main reason for adding it to your stress-fighting food list.
It’s the omega 3 fatty acids that are beneficial. You’ll link omega 3 to the brain health a lot, and this is where the stress comes from. Your brain starts to release the cortisol (the stress hormones) and will keep releasing that until you find a way to battle against it.
The Omega 3 helps to boost the cell growth and repair within the brain. The fatty acids and amino acids work together to release more happy hormones to fight against the stress hormones that have been released.
At the same time, you’ll get enough protein to make you feel fuller. You’ll fight against cravings that your brain thinks you need and feel happier knowing that you’ve stuck to a healthy diet.
Balance the Bacteria in Your Gut with Yogurt
Did you know that bacteria in your gut can cause stress? This sounds weird, but it just shows how much your body works together to create a fully working system. Your digestive system and your brain need to be in the balance with each other.
Well, this means you need to keep the bacteria in your gut to a minimum. Well, you need to keep the bad bacteria in your gut to a minimum.
Natural yogurt is excellent for this. It has the good bacteria that fights against the bad stuff and removes it from the system. At the same time, you get a diary to help support the growth of your bones, while adding anti-inflammatory properties to help keep the inflammation response to stress and bacteria to a minimum.
Make sure you get yogurt that has probiotics in them. These are the good bacteria that will fight against the bad in your system.
Add Fibre to Your Diet with Oats
It’s time to add some coarse oats to your diet. They are filled with fiber and keep your digestive system working. At the same time, they help to balance your body and reduce the stress hormones being released.
There are a few reasons that oats work. The first is that they are filling. The fiber breaks down slowly, so you feel fuller throughout the day. You won’t want to snack as much or counting down the hours for your next meal. This instantly cuts down the stress, as your brain isn’t panicking that you won’t get food later. The effects also last longer, since the fiber takes the longest out of all food groups to break down.
Oats also help to release the serotonin in the body. You get that calm feeling. Watch out because you can feel a little sleepy from this food.
But aren’t oats also a carb? Well, yes and no. They are a carb but not the type of carb that you’re thinking about. Oats will not make your blood sugar rise. They have the opposite effect. The stress in your body will make your blood sugar rise, but the oats help to balance that by removing the stress and getting your blood sugar levels down naturally to protect against the insulin response because of the fiber.
It’s Time to Get Your Stress-Busting Arsenal Together
The foods above are all ones that you can add to your cupboards, fridge, and freezer. The next time you feel stressed, think about the meals that you’ll make and the foods you’ll reach for.
You may think that you need the chocolate bar, but it’s not going to do you any good. Instead, you want to focus on foods that will replace nutrients that the cortisol is trying to get rid of. You need to add nutrients that will support the immune system and carry out repair work as well as prevention work.
Focus on a diet full of protein and fiber. You’ll be satisfied for longer and get the amino acids that release the serotonin rather than cortisol. Not only will you keep stress levels at a minimum, but you’ll also feel less depressed and anxious.
The great news is that you’ll also support your weight loss efforts and boost your overall health. Just think about all the extra nutrients you’ll get without adding the extra calories. Even adding some nuts and seeds to your diet isn’t going to cause the calorie intake to shoot up that much, and you’ll snack less throughout the day! It’s a win-win situation.
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