Health and Wellness Presentations
Educational sessions at work offer your staff the tools to improve their health. Participants can learn specific wellness techniques and solutions from a Henry Ford expert.
We offer all of these presentations online and the sessions below can be done in-person for certain locations.
Metro Detroit and Southeast Michigan
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Nutrition and Healthy Eating
Cooking Demonstrations
Learn tips and tricks with recipes like beet hummus, cocoa date truffles or stir fry. Includes demonstration, sampling and recipes.
Healthy Recipe Modifications
Explore ways to reduce fat, sodium, sugar and calories in some of your favorite recipes.
Healthy Dining Out
Build skills to review menus to find the healthiest selections.
Healthy Smoothies
Understand the basics of building a healthy smoothie as a healthy snack or meal replacement. Includes demonstration, sampling and recipes.
Let’s Spice It Up
Discover how to use herbs and spices to liven up cooking, decrease sodium and make tastier meals.
Nutrition 101
This overview of nutrition includes macro- and micronutrients, how to balance intake and follow guidelines for healthy nutrition.
Plan, Purchase and Prepare
Dinner is Done: Get practical guidance on how to prepare a week of healthy meals, from recipes to groceries and meal preparation.
Super Foods
Learn how a diet rich in nutrient-dense foods can decrease the risk of disease.
Spending Your Calorie Salary
Explore how to get the most value for your calories and stay within your budget.
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Physical Activity
Exercise on a budget
Getting physically fit doesn't have to be expensive. Learn how to fit exercise in without purchasing expensive exercise equipment or gym memberships. Receive tips on how to build an exercise routine without breaking the bank!
Move to improve…Every day, find a way!
Physical activity is essential to our well-being and overall good health. This fun, interactive session shows employees how to fit exercise into their daily lives, whether it’s a five minute aerobic pick-me-up, some strength exercises or stretches to improve flexibility and decrease risk of injury. We review ideas for all including desk stretches that can be performed in just a few minutes.
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Healthy Living
The Power of Sleep
Learn about the importance of sleep and tips and tricks to improve sleep quality and quantity.
Better choices = Better numbers
Explore the lifestyle choices needed to improve your blood pressure.
Pre-Diabetes and Diabetes Prevention
Gain an understanding of pre-diabetes and how you can prevent diabetes.
Mental and Emotional Well-Being
Learn how your mental and emotional wellbeing can affect your physical health.
The Mind-Body Toolkit for Stress Relief
Build skills to reduce stress and use mindfulness to improve your health
Cannabis: The Good, the Bad and the Blurry:
Gain an understanding of the difference between types of cannabis products as well as the risks and potential benefits.
Quitting 101
Find out how to prepare for quitting any kind of tobacco or nicotine product and how to stay quit.
Heart Failure
What to Eat and What to Limit: Learn how to lower sodium intake, manage fluid intake, and make food choices that support the heart and help reduce symptoms.
Jackson and South Central Michigan
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Healthy Living
Be Tobacco Free
Provides an overview of the quitting process. Learn why it can be challenging but possible to stop using tobacco. Each person is different but you can learn how to begin your own quitting journey. Topics addressed include: medications to help you quit, how to set up a quit plan, alternates to smoking, and cognitive change.
Heart Health: Know Your Numbers
Provides an overview of heart disease and what individuals can do to help reduce their risk of developing it. Risk factors for heart disease will be covered with an emphasis on those that can be controlled.
Blood Pressure Up? Learn How to Dial it Down
Learn why managing your blood pressure is important to your health. Provides an overview of what blood pressure is and what an individual can do to help keep it in a healthy range.
DASH Eating Plan to Help Manage Your Blood Pressure
Provides a better understanding of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan. Studies have shown that following this eating plan can lower an individual’s blood pressure within in two weeks.
Diabetes Prevention & Management
It’s estimated that 1 in 3 Americans have pre-diabetes and most aren’t aware. Type 2 diabetes is a highly preventable and treatable disease. Learn strategies to prevent diabetes if you don’t have it and manage it well if you do.
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Stress and Mental Health
What Stress and How Do You Cope?
After identifying sources of stress, we will discuss stress triggers and reactions to give you an increased awareness of how you cope with stress. The increased awareness will allow you to better evaluate stressors in your life while setting goals to continue what’s working and to improve what isn’t.
How to Make Stress Your Friend
Learn to use your body’s natural stress response to become more focused, loving and connected.
Don’t Eat Your Stress
Learn about the physiological response to stress and how it can lead to emotional eating. Create strategies to stop the cycle.
Stress Management: “App”lication Resources
Join us for an interactive class designed to help you understand your stressors and experience “Apps” and resources geared for stress management and reduction.
Compassion Fatigue
Are you a caregiver for family, friends, or through volunteering and/or work? Join in to learn more about compassion fatigue and identify personal strategies to avoid burnout. We will go beyond positive thinking through connecting what you can do by changing even 1 minute of your day in creating effective and efficient habits to enhance your happiness and still support those around you.
Understanding Depression
We all feel blue, bummed out or down in the dumps at times, but is it depression? Learn the definition, symptoms and causes of depression as well as coping mechanisms to help you understand this common condition.
Understanding Anxiety
Do you think you or someone you care about may suffer with anxiety? Learn the definition, symptoms and causes of anxiety as well as coping strategies to help you understand this commonly misunderstood chronic condition.
Holiday Blues
Learn how to identify it, the differences from depression and ways to address it as early as possible.
Talk Back to Negative Thoughts
Would you speak to your loved ones the mean ways you sometimes “talk” to yourself? No way? Discover how replacing negative thoughts with positive thinking can improve your mood and overall well-being.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
Bad day? Stressful job? How do you cope at the end of the day? Do you escape or persevere? Do you turn to drinking, smoking or drugging? How much is too much? Find out what else works.
Avoid Burnout by Increasing Compassion
Define and reframe stress and resiliency characteristics and identify and experience tools to build resilience and for self-care.
Boosting Brain Health through Nutrition and Exercise
Lifestyle has a profound impact on your brain health. The Cleveland Clinic has identified 6 pillars of brain health, and this presentation focuses on the nutrition and exercise pillars.
Boosting Brain Health: Sleep and Relaxation
Lifestyle has a profound impact on your brain health. The Cleveland Clinic has identified 6 pillars of brain health, and this presentation focuses on the sleep and relaxation pillar.
Five Ways to Feel More Energized
Would you like to have more energy and productivity without relying on caffeine? Learn natural strategies that will not only give you more energy, but can also help improve your mood and prevent disease.
Enhancing Happiness
Learn 12 evidence-based strategies to increase your joy, productivity, overall well-being.
Balance Work and Home
Clarify values, set priorities, and establish boundaries to live optimally both at work and home.
Resume Control of Our Lives
Could your life be so much better without your bad habits? We will explore ways we give control away through hurts, habits, and hang-ups and what to do to take back control of our lives.
Resilience and Self-Care
Have you or someone you know experienced trauma or other adversities that interfere with leading the best life possible? Learn about resilience and self-care strategies that help with healing.
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Exercise and Fitness
Fitting in Fitness
Do you struggle to find the time to stay active with competing life demands? Learn how to add more movement to your day without sacrificing a balanced life. It’s possible. We promise.
Sports Nutrition for High Performance
You don’t truly know your performance potential until you make proper nutrition part of your training plan. Learn how the type and timing of nutritional intake can turn a good athlete into a great one!
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Nutrition and Healthy Eating
Healthy Strategies for a Healthy Weight
Our registered dietitians will teach you the basics of weight loss and share strategies to keep those unwanted pounds off for good. No gimmicks- just healthy habits that have been proven to work.
Healthy Eating When Time is Tight
If you think it is too expensive to eat healthy or catch yourself grabbing fast food when life gets busy, this class is for you! Learn realistic strategies to eat better on a budget and plan ahead. Our time saving strategies will help you eat right when life gets hectic.
Intuitive Eating
Have you ever finished eating and wondered “who ate my food?”! Do you cycle from depriving yourself to guilt-inducing binges? Learn to pay attention and eat intuitively to improve your relationship with food, eat what your body needs, and enjoy your food like never before!
Rethink Your Drink
What you drink can have a major impact on your health and well-being. Learn why fluid is important, how much you need, and how to choose the best beverage for your body.