The American Heart Association understands that there is no cookie-cutter approach to wellness. This is why it created My Life Check.
The online tool offers personalized nutrition and activity recommendations based on factors such as blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, and nutrition and exercise goals.
It is a main component of the AHA’s “It Is All About Me!” employee wellness program. The initiative offers quarterly challenges, prizes, reimbursements, healthy-living programs, health coaching and tracking tools.
Employee Winnie Carroll has found it particularly beneficial. She has lost a grandmother, her father and three siblings to heart disease.
“Not only do I follow the guidelines for staying healthy, eating right and doing the proper exercises,” she said, “I pass this information along to my siblings in the hopes that they will, too.” •