Page 8 - Employee Health-Wellness

The SENS Solution Wellness Program is CCPHP’s
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innovative approach to supporting your employees’

wellness, focusing on four lifestyle pillars:

Sleep Exercise Nutrition Stress

+ Adequate sleep is necessary for + Exercise helps control body + Good nutrition improves + Adequate stress management
a healthy nervous system, cell weight and reduces risk of wellbeing and quality of life, and provides for a more balanced
growth, controlling emotions, cardiovascular disease and many lowers risk for disease. 8 lifestyle. 11
memory, and learning. other health conditions.
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- Poor nutrition increases risk for - Poor stress management
- Inadequate sleep is linked to - Inadequate exercise is heart disease, diabetes, stroke, increases risk of heart disease,
accidents, chronic disease, associated with chronic diseases, and certain types of cancer. 9 high blood pressure, diabetes,
reduced quality of life and including high blood pressure, depression, anxiety disorder, and
productivity. high blood sugar, excess body fat, - More than 67% of adults and other illnesses. 12
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and abnormal cholesterol levels. 33% of children in the United
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- 50-70 million adults in the U.S. States are overweight or obese. 10 - Close to one in five adults
have chronic sleep disorders. 6 - Approximately 25% of adults suffers from chronic anxiety due
aged 50 or older are inactive. 7 to prolonged chronic stress, with
23% of those cases classified as
severe. 13

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7. Watson KB, Carlson SA, Gunn JP, et al. “Physical Inactivity Among Adults Aged 50 Years and Older — United States, 2014.” CDC, Atlanta, GA, 15 Sept. 2016.
8. USDA – National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). “Nutrition.” USDA, Washington, DC.
9. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). “Weight Control.” USHHS, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
10. Ogden, CL., et.al. Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults and Youth: United States, 2011–2014. National Center for Health Statistics, Nov 2015. CDC, Atlanta, GA.
11. NIMH. “Fact Sheet on Stress”. National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
12. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention. “Coping with Stress”, Dec 2016. CDC, Atlanta, GA.
13. NIMH. “Any Anxiety Disorder Among Adults”, Dec 2016. National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD.