Seminars

Exercise and Physical Activity

Beyond the Basics
A review of the basic guidelines for exercise training is great but you want more! Learn how to maximize your time in the gym and how lifestyle, diet and training techniques can either enhance or hinder all your hard work.

Exercise is MedicineTM
Exercise is Medicine (EIM) is a collaborative effort through the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Medical Association on how exercise can be used to treat and prevent over 40 chronic diseases and improve quality of life. Presented by Jeannine L. Stuart, a PhD Exercise Physiologist, the EIM program will also highlight available resources and toolkits to assist in starting an exercise program and develop a strategic plan for exercise adherence.

Guidelines for Exercise Training for Healthy Adults
This presentation will educate people on how to achieve their potential to live full, active lives through health promotion and physical fitness. A slide presentation developed by the American College of Sports Medicine introduces medical research and the importance of a well-rounded training program for disease prevention.

“So What’s Your Excuse for Not Getting Enough Exercise?”
The seminar addresses favorite excuses as to why people are not getting enough exercise and ideas to overcome those barriers…both real and perceived. Basic information on the benefits of regular exercise, how to start an exercise program, and commonly asked questions are addressed.

Nutrition and Weight Management

Low Fat is Where It’s At
This seminar is designed to help employees identify ways they can lower their heart disease and stroke risk through diet. Awareness posters and promotional materials make employees aware that fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol are important. A heart healthy quiz is distributed to inform employees of the seminar. Recipes are also provided.

Metabolism…..What’s It All About?
This presentation reviews metabolism basics, daily energy expenditure, resting metabolic rate and ways to jump start your metabolism.

Portion Distortion
This presentation illustrates how portion sizes have grown over the years and how consuming these “extra” calories contribute to obesity and heart disease. This interactive presentation challenges the audience to “guess-timate” how many calories certain foods are and how much physical activity needs to be done to burn those excess calories.

General Health & Wellness

Concepts of Wellness
This seminar is an exploration of the various dimensions of wellness: physical, social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. In looking at the 5 dimensions of wellness, high level wellness clearly goes beyond the absence of disease and optimal fitness. Wellness incorporates components such as fitness, proper nutrition, stress management, disease prevention, social support, and much more.

Germ Germs Germs; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
This seminar reviews the many kinds of germs, good and bad. It also reviews how you can protect yourself from those nasty little bugs and avoid spreading diseases and infection.

Healthy Back
This seminar teaches steps to achieving a healthy back: including proper posture, muscle tone, flexibility, stress management, and proper back lifting techniques. Most people do not think about proper back care until something goes wrong. Eighty percent of us have experienced back pain at some point in our lives. This seminar helps to lower the odds of developing significant back injuries.

Life in the Stressed Lane
Research is suggesting that stress may be a contributing risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Studies are showing that chronic stress may be associated with increased blood pressure and cholesterol. Although we live in a fast-paced, high stress culture, people can do things to reduce their negative impact of stress on the physical, emotional, and mental health. Educational materials will be provided.

Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a major health problem that affects over 25 million Americans. Half of the women over age 50 and one-third of men over age 75 will develop osteoporosis. Osteoporosis will cause more than 1.3 million debilitating fractures a year; hip fractures alone account for an estimated 50,000 deaths annually. While there are treatments that can slow or stop bone loss, currently the only cure for osteoporosis is prevention. This presentation is designed to educate the audience on: what osteoporosis is, the risk factors associated with osteoporosis, and osteoporosis prevention.

Physiological Responses to Stress
Everyone handles stress differently. This program reviews the chronic effect of stress on the immune system, the digestive system, the nervous system and the brain, as well as the metabolic systems. It concludes with a review on tips for managing stress.

Sleep Awareness
According to a National Sleep Foundation’s Sleep Poll the majority of Americans are not getting enough quality sleep. This program will review the results of this national survey, identify the 5 sleep personality types and the impact that poor sleep habits has on your health.

Summertime Safety
This lecture discusses the potential hazards of too much fun in the sun. Topics include fluid replacement guidelines, heat emergencies, allergic reactions to bees and bites, poisoning, water safety, and sunburn.

Vitamins in Physical Activity & Health
This program provides an overview of basic vitamin nutrition and the roles that vitamins play in physical fitness and health. Basic vitamin nutrition, dietary and life-style factors that can put an individual at risk for poor vitamin status and how vitamins may compliment the benefits of physical activity are also presented in the seminar.

What’s All the Fuss about Wellness?
This program will define wellness, review the economic impact of select health conditions and how unhealthy lifestyle choices impact us financially. Also addressed are 3 questions often asked by senior management about wellness: (1) will it save me money? (2) will it decrease my cost to do business, (3) how long will it take to see a return on my investment?

Cardiovascular Health

Cardiovascular Risk Factor Education
This presentation highlights several of the more prominent cardiovascular risk factors, what the numbers mean, how to reduce these risk factors and potential treatment plans.

Diabetes
Learn what the differences are between Type I and Type II diabetes; what it means to be insulin resistant, and how to reduce your risk factors for diabetes.

Heart Owner’s Profile
Our personal health practices influence our health more than any other factors, including medical care and heredity. This seminar educates employees about the control they have over their own risk for future heart disease. The contents of this seminar are based on American Heart Association recommendations. Educational materials will be provided.

His and Hers Heart Disease
This presentation reviews that after almost 2 decades of gender-based research, it’s becoming increasingly clear that gender differences should guide many aspects of heart disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Women’s Health

The Female Athlete Triad: Disordered Eating, Amenorrhea, and Osteoporosis
A slide presentation developed by the American College of Sports Medicine, educates how to identify each component of the “Female Athlete Triad” and means of prevention. This lecture is suitable for any audience including athletes, coaches, athletic trainers, school administrators, parents, and the public at large.

Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors
This seminar discusses pesticides at home and in the neighborhood that are risk factors for breast cancer. Participants will learn pest management in a variety of settings: the ability to appropriately interview and select a commercial landscaper/pest control professional who is responsive to concerns about pesticide use and exposure; the ability to communicate with neighbors about issues of pesticide use in the neighborhood; the ability to become more informed about and participate in decisions regarding pesticide use in communities.

If you don’t see a topic you are interested in please let us know.
We are always adding to our repertoire!

Please Contact Karen Reitano to schedule or for further questions
kreitano@areufithealthservices.com