About Healthy Lifestyles  
     
 

As the largest employer in the New York metropolitan area and one of the country’s leading healthcare organizations, the North Shore-LIJ Health System has an obligation to provide its employees—the caregivers in the community—wellness education and resources. We want our employees to have the knowledge and tools to make healthier choices—both on and off the job!

This is why the health system is introducing Healthy Lifestyles, a program designed to promote and encourage health and wellness for each and every employee. Healthy Lifestyles promotes health through smoking cessation programs, including free counseling and medications to help employees quit, discounted fitness programs through gyms and Weight Watchers®, educational seminars on nutrition and medical care and discounted rates at on-site weight management centers.

For more information about Healthy Lifestyles contact your Site Wellness Action Team (SWAT) or send us your comments.

Why Wellness Makes Sense

Did you know that although the United States spends more dollars on healthcare than any other industrialized nation, our citizens are not the world’s healthiest? Leading causes of premature death in this country are linked to personal behaviors that contribute to disease development or exacerbate existing health problems. Look no further than the following statistics:

  • Over 60% of adults do not achieve the recommended amount of regular physical activity and 25% of adults are not active at all
  • Approximately one-half of the youth in this country are not active on a regular basis
    (Source: Surgeon General’s Report on Physical Activity & Health, 1996)
  • According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost 1 in 5 American adults are considered obese
    (Source: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases)

Despite overwhelming evidence of the relationship between smoking and illness, tobacco usage is still prevalent:

  • Since the release of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health in 1964, Americans have consumed 17 trillion cigarettes and approximately 10 million people in the United States have died from smoking related causes
  • 3,000 young people begin smoking every day despite the growing number of early, preventable deaths
    (Source: The American Cancer Society)

So what are you waiting for? Click on the Employee Programs page to get started!

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