About Us

Our message is simple: Small lifestyle changes = Big results

Is the high cost of healthcare coverage impacting your company's profits?

This is the reality for many businesses today. With an estimated 65% Americans overweight including many with other health issues such as high blood pressure, heart disease, and Type 2 Diabetes, healthcare costs for companies is on the rise impacting bottom line profits.

Increasing deductibles and copays makes your benefits package less desirable in a competitive market to hire and retain good employees.

There is a cost effective solution so your company can save a significant amount of money in healthcare costs and absenteeism.

Prevention is key to solving many of these health issues. Keeping your employees healthy with personalized support has proven to be a successful strategy that can help decrease overall healthcare costs.

The Bottom Line Numbers

What Employers are Spending

Much of your healthcare dollars are spent on health issues that can be improved or eliminated with small lifestyle changes. Here are some figures:

• According to Dr. Steve Aldana, nationally recognized expert, the combination of physical inactivity, diet, and obesity could cost an employer as much as 35-40% of their total healthcare costs.

• In 1997, Medical Expenditures for diabetic employees were over $10,000 per person compared to $2,600 per person for non-diabetics.

• According to a RAND Corporation study, a sedentary lifestyle costs an employer about $1,900. Employers foot the bill for losses in productivity as well as higher payments for health insurance, disability and absenteeism.

Cost Savings with Implementing Wellness Programs

• For every dollar spent on  health promotion the return on investment is between $2 to $8 in both direct costs and indirect savings.

        - United States Department of Health and Human Services

• Getting an employee to exercise for 20 minutes two or more days per week can lower healthcare costs by $500 per employee per year.

        - University of Michigan Health Management Research Center

• Each $1 spent for diabetes education saves $2-$3 in hospitalization costs.

       - National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

• A review of 14 studies showed that health promotion programs were associated with reduced absenteeism in all of them.

 

How Can We Help?

Real Living Nutrition Services provides innovative online nutrition coaching programs where your employees can get professional advice, support, and regular e-coaching with a Registered Dietitian to help improve their health.

The major health issues affecting healthcare costs today all have a few things in common: Lifestyle Choices, Diet, and Exercise.

These issues include:

Obesity

High Blood Pressure

Heart Disease

Type 2 Diabetes

These issues can be improved, prevented, or resolved with nutrition and lifestyle coaching. Studies show that weight management interventions in obese adults that result in just 5%-10% decrease in body weight are associated with significant improvements in blood pressure, cholesterol levels, glucose tolerance, and overall reduction in prevalence of Diabetes, and Hypertension.

You can see by tackling weight issues many other issues can be resolved or improved. We are committed to helping people create lasting lifestyle changes to improve their health.

Benefits of our Programs

Professional Nutrition Coaches

All nutrition coaching is done with Registered Dietitians to assure your employees are getting sound advice. Counting calories or using pre-made meal plans is not always effective when someone has multiple health issues like Type 2 Diabetes and/or High Blood Pressure. Often times it may even worsen the problem by providing the wrong balance of nutrients. Using Registered Dietitians assures accurate, evidence-based advice. Plus most states have nutrition licensure laws where Registered Dietitians are the only nutrition practitioners that can legally provide nutrition advice for medical issues.

Privacy

When people have health issues they don't always want their co-workers to know. They may be embarrassed to join an on-site class or group. This takes away any privacy they have for their healthcare issues. Our programs provide complete privacy for your employees. Our clients report privacy is one of the most appealing parts of our programs.

Coaching Model vs. Information Portal

We are in the information age with internet access at our fingertips. The problem with weight issues and other health issues isn't necessarily lack of information, but instead it is a lack of personalization and how to break that information down in a meaningful way. Coaching helps your employees to get the right information for their situation, develop strategies, offers accountability, and helps them to work through challenges and obstacles that come up. Getting personalized attention can make the difference of someone just learning about things and taking actionable steps to get results.

Can Service All of Your Locations

Does your company have offices in different cities and states? This can often be a challenge to provide the same wellness program benefits to each location. Our programs are all online, so your employees can meet with their dietitian from anywhere without having to schedule an appointment.

Long Term Support

Each program allows your employee to have lifetime access to our tools for long-term support at no added cost. This includes:

• Bi-monthly e-newsletter with articles, product reviews and healthy recipes
• Goals tracker so clients can manage their personal health goals
• Interactive grocery shopping tool so they can see how their food choices measure up
• Article library
• Self-Discovery Exercises to learn more about their behaviors and habits
• Cooking video demonstrations with cookbook author Holly Clegg
• Exercise demos
• Healthy Living E-Cookbook and Restaurant Guide
• Calculators: BMI, Calories burned through exercise

Outcomes

We have each employee fill out an anonymous survey at the end of each program so we can gather information regarding any results they received in their weight, labs, and any new healthy habits that have formed. We will provide your company regular reports so you can see measurable outcomes.

 

Program Choices

We have many options for small, medium, and large businesses. We will work with you to customize the perfect fit.

Mini Diet Makeover

Includes:

• Diet and Lifestyle Assessment
• Diet makeover
• Health action plan
• Unlimited use of all the free tools listed above
• 10% Employee Discounts on Balance Program and E-Coaching if they decide to continue the process on their own.
• E-newsletter

 

8-Week Balance Program

Includes:

• Diet and Lifestyle Assessment
• Diet makeover
• Health action plan
• Online Workbook (8 chapters)
• 8 e-coaching sessions
• 1 bonus e-coaching session
• Unlimited use of the free tools
• Discounts on E-Coaching if they decide to continue to work with their dietitian on their own
• E-newsletter

 

90-Day Challenge

This is a group challenge that is set up in groups of 4-7 for each dietitian. You can have multiple groups going at the same time.

Includes:

• The entire 8-week Balance Program above
• 4 additional e-coaching sessions
• 3 group teleclasses (once a month)
• 3 Special Reports
• A private google group where members can interact and support each other
• Unlimited use of the free tools
• Discounts on E-Coaching if they decide to continue work with their dietitian on their own
• E-newsletter

 

Customization

We can customize our platform with the look and feel of your website. We can use your branding to create your own wellness programs.

Pricing

Our pricing varies depending on the program, volume, and any customization. All of our corporate wellness accounts receive a discounted rate from our regular pricing. Please give us a call so we can discuss your needs and provide the best fit for your budget.

We'd also be happy to show you a tour of how our programs work. Contact us at:

919-744-9595 or email: meri@reallivingnutrition.com