'Healthy Choices' program offers incentives

Health and Wellness has unveiled a new incentive program aimed at increasing participation in the Know Your Numbers campaign and achieving a goal of being the healthiest campus in Michigan.

The “Healthy Choices” program is designed to encourage and support healthy lifestyle behaviors for faculty and staff members, their spouses and household members through outreach and participation in yearlong programming and events.

To participate, faculty and staff members must undergo the clinical health risk assessment during the Know Your Numbers campaign, which will run January 17-28, and track quarterly wellness activities online at www.umr.com, beginning on January 17. A sample of wellness activities includes participating in Weight Watchers or a smoking cessation class, attending a group presentation or attending exercise classes.

Participants who complete all components will be eligible to win four quarterly prize drawings of $100, and an annual drawing for two $1,500 prizes. President Thomas J. Haas has urged the campus community to make healthy choices. “There is not a better time to improve or maintain good health than right now,” he said.

“Join me as I take action to live better with the Healthy Choices incentive program. Living healthy lives ensures we can do what we do best every day: educating students to shape their lives, professions and societies.”

Register for Know Your Numbers online at www.gvsu.edu/healthwellness and click on the “Know Your Numbers” button.

More information about the incentive program, including testimonials by faculty and staff members, is also on the website.