Weight Management
For U.S. businesses, employee obesity outranks both smoking and drinking in terms of increased health care costs, lower productivity and absenteeism. Controlling employee obesity is critical to both the financial success of your company and the future health of your workers. Obesity is associated with a much higher occurrence of diabetes, high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol as well as degenerative joint disease, adding to morbidity and health care costs.
Manufacturers of weight-loss pills and formulas would like us to believe that shedding those extra pounds is quick and easy. The reality, however, is that a sustained weight management program emphasizing education, exercise, goal setting, problem solving, with small, consistent changes is the most effective solution.
The CCM weight management program provides all of those things - custom tailored to your employees' particular needs - it's weight management, your way.
Our successful 10 week program offers interactive learning and support and introduces the tools that will help in your employees efforts to lose weight, keep it off and improve their overall health. Goal setting and planning are reviewed each week. The sessions are facilitated by a Registered Dietitian with specialized training in weight management and behavioral change.
Each week your employees will learn to:
- Stop dieting and start eating for health and pleasure
- Learn the valuable approaches used by successful weight loss maintainers
- Understand and manage stress, time and emotional eating
- Plan, practice and persist in new healthier habits toward weight control
- Identify and resolve personal barriers to healthier eating
For more information, contact us.
Found below are links to a collection of informative articles relating to weight management issues.
- CNN: International survey: Fattest teens in U.S.
- Medical News Today: Debate widens: Is obesity a disease?
- Healthfinder: Obesity: The Little Known Cancer Risk
- Maryland Athletics: Excess Weight in Middle Age Tied to Poor Health Later
- CDC report: CDC: obesity fastest growing health threat in U.S.
- CNN: Study: Even a little exercise fends off weight gain
- CNN: CDC: Most still don't get enough exercise
- The Telegraph: Worth Its Weight in Debate
- American Sports Data: A New Front In The War On Obesity

