Move It. Lose It. Live Healthy. Achieve a Healthier Workplace One Employee at a Time! [Paperback]

Thomas B. Gilliam; Jane Neill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 10, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0976270307 | ISBN-13: 978-0976270300 | Edition: 1

Achieving a healthy body weight is good for you. And what’s good for you is good for your company. Want to live a longer, healthier, more productive life? Of course you do! The key is to lose excess weight and keep it off. And there’s a financial benefit as well: a healthy body weight means you’re less likely to suffer diseases, illnesses and injuries. That means your employer saves money on your health insurance—and that’s good news for you and everyone with whom you work. In Move It. Lose It. Live Healthy: A Healthier Workplace One Employee at a Time!, Tom Gilliam provides the foundation to help you achieve a healthy body weight without putting your health at risk. Read this book and you will learn: · How to achieve a healthy body weight · How to select a physical activity that is right for you · How to include more physical activity in your daily routine · How to prepare more nutritious, balanced meals · How to select healthier snacks · How to help your children become more physically active · How to help your children develop healthier snacking habits · How to dine out more nutritiously. This book is for anyone interested in achieving or maintaining a healthy body weight over time. Note the last two words. You didn’t gain the weight overnight and you won’t lose it overnight, either. But changing your lifestyle will pay off. Long term, you’ll have more money in your pocket . . . and the energy to get out there and really enjoy it.

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About the Author

Thomas B. Gilliam, Ph. D. – Dr. Gilliam is a pioneer and acknowledged expert in the field of dynamic strength testing for industry based on the sports medicine model. Dr. Gilliam has provided isokinetic physical capability assessments for Fortune 1000 companies since 1982. Dr. Gilliam's programs have dramatically reduced worker’s compensation costs and decreased injury incidence and severity rates for major industrial clients. In addition, Dr. Gilliam has been instrumental in identifying and presenting to industry the higher risk for injury and disease caused by obesity in the workplace. Dr. Gilliam is the creator of the Heart "E" Heart program, which is a healthy lifestyle program for children and their families. Dr. Gilliam was the principal investigator in a National Institutes of Health research study investigating the impact of physical activity and nutritional habits on heart disease risk in young children. This research in the late 1970s resulted in numerous scholarly publications and television and radio interviews throughout the world including NBC’s Today Show and NBC’s Nightly News with their science editor, Robert Basel. In 1973, Dr. Gilliam earned a doctorate degree from Michigan State University in exercise physiology with a minor in graduate statistics and research design. From 1974 to 1982, Dr. Gilliam was on the faculty at the University of Michigan. Before resigning from his tenured faculty position, he was involved with numerous funded research projects (i.e. N.I.H., Kellogg Foundation, State of Michigan and others) that resulted in 29 refereed, scholarly publications. Jane C. Neill, R.D., L.D. – Ms. Neill is the 2004 recipient of the Nutritionist of the Year Award for the State of Alabama Public Health. She is an active member of the American Dietetic Association and currently employed by the Alabama Department of Public Health, where she works with the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program as a WIC coordinator and a licensed dietitian. Ms. Neill has worked in the WIC program for over ten years providing daily nutrition counseling for women, infants and children. While on the staff as a registered dietitian at the University of Michigan Health System in the late 1970s, Ms. Neill was instrumental in working with Dr. Gilliam as an investigator on the National Institutes of Health research study to investigate the impact of physical activity and nutritional habits on heart disease risk in children ages six to eight years. Ms. Neill was a member of the team that developed and wrote the Heart "E" Heart program for children and their families. Ms. Neill received her bachelor’s of science degree from the University of Alabama in 1977 in food, nutrition and institutional management. Ms. Neill has been working as a registered dietitian for over 27 years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 273 pages
• Publisher: T Gilliam & Associates, LLC; 1 edition (July 10, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976270307
• ISBN-13: 978-0976270300
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #307,355 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Finally... Someone who knows what they are talking about!, September 27, 2005

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Realistic! This book is a great health manual. Finally, someone who knows what they are talking about!

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Basic For Families! EXcellent for our times, January 22, 2009

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Move It. Lose It. Live Healthy. Achieve a Healthier Workplace One Employee at a Time! by Thomas B. Gilliam; Jane Neill This excellent book is for all your employees so you have a lower insurance cost with healthier workers and your family guide to a healthy and fun lifestyle. Explaining the basics of proper nutrition and fun ways to exercise, the authors detail the necessity of helping pre-schoolers learn these healthy habits and learn why their bodies need for them to choose nutritious foods, not to develop bad eating habits,or smoking or alcohol. This book is a good guide to helping correct the problems with the current generation of youngsters who are the most obese, least exercised of any generation in history and the health problems for them as adults are staggering. This book presents adorable characters, Heart "E" and his friends, who help the parent teach the child how his body functions and which of these friends can help and which ones can hurt him and how he can protect himself from the harmful ones that destroy his body. This is an EXCELLENT book for the company and whole family to change to healthy, life-enhancing life-styles and have FUN and enjoyment while doing so. It is packed with great physical and scientific information but explained in simple to understand and follow ways. This is a MUST for every family...give your children and yourself the gift of happy energy, feeling great, and adult good health!