Healthy Weight Commitment

Websites

Energy Balance: 101

Energy Balance: 101 is a free wellness resource for teachers, students, families and communities. Funded by the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, and brought to you in partnership with Discovery Education, the global leader in nonfiction media. This website empowers teachers, students, parents and community leaders to strengthen the connections between healthy schools, healthy homes, healthy communities and healthy kids. Other partners for the site include Meredith Media Company and Parents magazine, the International Food Information Council and the National Counsel of La Raza.

• Teachers: Standards-Based Lessons, Hands-On Activities
• Schools:  Tool kits to help schools participate in the USHealthier Schools Challenge
• Families: Fun Activities, Interactive Tools, Simple Tips
• Community: Summer Activities, Healthy Habits, Partner Resources

These materials give educators and parents the tools they need to help combat childhood obesity.

Balancing calories in and calories out has a positive impact on the mind and body for overall wellness and student achievement. Visit Energy Balance: 101 to learn more about the connection between active kids and academics.

Your Wellness Advantage

Your Wellness Advantage is a free resource with everything that small to medium-size companies need to launch, manage and maintain a Workplace Wellness Program. Funded by the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, and brought to you in partnership with the National Business Group on Health, this website features tips and strategies for turning Workplace Wellness into a competitive advantage, including:

• Business Advantages
• Getting Started
• Employee Communications
• A Healthier Workplace
• Benefits Connection
• Measuring Success
• Workplace Wellness Program Answer Center

Your Wellness Advantage also links to the ICount Corporate Wellness Program, designed for small companies looking for an easy turnkey solution to help employees live a healthier lifestyle.

Large business or small, you have a stake in the health and well-being of your employees. Workplace Wellness is for everyone, and this new website helps make the resources accessible to everyone.

Visit Your Wellness Advantage to learn more about how your Workplace Wellness Program can reduce medical costs, lower absenteeism, improve productivity, and boost your bottom line. Visit the workplace wellness support services locator to access services that can help improve employee health and productivity!

 

Together Counts™

The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation’s national Together Counts™ campaign will encourage families to eat meals and engage in healthy physical activities together more frequently as a way of promoting an active healthy lifestyle among children.

• Families are asked to pledge to eat meals together and engage in physical activity together as a family.
• A website tips page offers advice and recommendations that fuel participation and progress.  
• Families are provided with tools to track their progress.
  • Through a family profile page, families can log their results and gain points.
  • They can compare their results with overall results in their communities and across America.
  • They can engage in positive competition.
• Rewards and incentives offer positive reinforcement for families to eat and exercise together.
• Families can link from the site to Facebook.
• Mobile apps give participants access to log and track their progress anywhere.
  • The mobile app allows families to access localized content.
  • It facilitates healthy competition among families within communities.