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1-Minute Wellness Website Helps Business Achieve a Health Culture

Posted on: Thursday, 21 February 2008, 09:00 CST

MIDLAND, Mich., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Employers can have immediate impact on employee health with a new easy-to-use website from Health Enhancement Systems. 1-Minute Wellness (http://www.1minutewellness.com/) lets users get the motivating health information they want without having to complete lengthy assessments or wade through long articles. The new resource simplifies health improvement, giving users a quick, simple way to learn and practice skills for a healthy lifestyle.

Employee surveys cite a lack of time as one of the top 3 reasons people don't exercise consistently, make the effort to eat healthier, or take time to manage stress, notes Dean Witherspoon, CEO of Health Enhancement Systems. "We wanted to remove the perceived barrier of not enough time, while giving wellness program managers an easy-to-administer website. 1-Minute Wellness offers participants timely health information they can act on, not just think about," Witherspoon explains. "The whole premise is what you can learn or do in 60 seconds that will have a positive impact on your health. It combines the idea of drive-thru with health education -- get what you need, and go."

1-Minute Wellness offers organizations almost limitless flexibility to convey health messages, run wellness campaigns, and highlight internal or external resources for as little as 15 cents per employee per month. "The base application is a high-value employee benefit by itself; then we built in features that allow wellness managers to add content, promote health benefits, and launch health improvement programs right from their desktop," comments Witherspoon. "We can set up a completely branded site and train wellness program managers to administer it in less than an hour."

Achieving a health culture requires a supportive workplace environment as well as a commitment by the employee, according to Witherspoon. "It's a shared responsibility between the organization and the individual." 1-Minute Wellness gives the employer and employees the tools needed to build the foundation for a health culture.

1-Minute Wellness is one of a family of online health improvement resources developed by Health Enhancement Systems, including NutriSum: Healthy Weight for Life, 10K-A-Day, Get Fit on Route 66, Colorful Choices, healthy2008, Green Planet Wellness, Great American Fitness Adventure, and other programs. Health Enhancement Systems has been creating health improvement solutions for corporations, health plans, health systems, hospitals, government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofits, and other groups since 1992.

For more information about 1-Minute Wellness or Health Enhancement Systems, call 800.326.2317 or visit http://www.healthenhancementsystems.com/.

Health Enhancement Systems

CONTACT: Dean Witherspoon, +1-800-326-2317, +1-989-839-0852

Web site: http://www.healthenhancementsystems.com/http://www.1minutewellness.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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