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"Healthy individuals mean healthy organizations"

Setting the perfect New Year's resolution

Five healthy resolutions for women

Five healthy resolutions for men

Office exercise: how to burn calories while you work (Mayo Clinic)

Weight loss: is it better to cut calories or exercise more?
(Mayo Clinic)

Tips for eating out

Ways to get more fruits and veggies!

Elliptical machines: what are the fitness benefits? (Mayo Clinic)

Workplace

Preventing Weight Gain

If you are at a healthy weight and want to stay there or overweight, not ready to lose, but don’t want to gain more, preventing weight gain is a good goal. Good news!! Weight gain can be prevented by choosing a lifestyle that includes good eating habits and daily physical activity. Learn more about the following ways to prevent weight gain!

• Choose an eating plan to prevent weight gain
• Get moving!
• Monitor yourself on a regular basis

Be Tobacco-Free! 

The South Dakota Tobacco Control Program is pleased to introduce www.BeFreeSD.com, a website promoting places to live, work and play tobacco-free in South Dakota. BeFreeSD.com is a continuously updated resource that South Dakota's residents and visitors can use to discover tobacco-free places to live, work, and play.

If you're a business owner in South Dakota, the site will show you the many benefits going tobacco-free can bring to your workplace.  Your company can sign up today and join the many businesses across the state that have already taken the latest step in providing a healthy environment for their employees.

Physical Activity Tip of the Month: Adult

Wondering how you can get 150 minutes each week of two types of physical activity, aerobic and muscle strengthening to improve your health? Adopt this motto: 10 minutes at a time is fine! Not only is it best to spread your activity out during the week, but you can break it up into smaller chunks of time during the day. As long as you’re doing your activity at a moderate or vigorous level at least 10 minutes at a time.

• Link of interest: New physical activity guidelines!

Worksite Wellness Tools

Promoting a healthy worksite can mean money saved and increased work production. Healthy South Dakota works to promote worksite wellness throughout South Dakota. Healthy SD would like to learn more about your worksite health environment. Take this survey to learn how you can improve worksite and employee health.

If you want to learn how your worksite rates at promoting healthy living, click here.

Small Steps Change of the Month

Fat sensible tip for choosing food when eating out: instead of bread, muffins or croissants choose melba toast, pita bread, or whole grain breads or rolls..

Work, live and play tobacco-free
Click here to learn what tobacco-free options are available for your family and to learn how being tobacco-free is good for your business.

Did You Know... A staggering $270 billion is spent each year treating preventable conditions related to tobacco, adult-onset diabetes and obesity? According to the Wellness Councils of America, more than 81% of businesses with 50 or more employees have some form of health promotion program – the most popular being exercise, stop-smoking, back care program, and stress management.Most employers offer wellness programs simply because they think the benefit is worth the cost.

No time to work out? Get fit in a flash!