Office of Personnel Management
Department of Health and Human Services
Healthy Refreshments
Discontinue the practice of serving sodas and junk food at official functions, e.g., picnics, receptions, etc. Serve only healthy, nutritional foods and beverages. This will reduce healthcare costs, illness and sick leave. It will also enhance productivity and encourage healthful living.
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Support Healthy Lifestyle Choices
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General Services Administration
Encourage Healthy Diets
Diet related illnesses among federal employees cost the government billions in healthcare expenses and lost productivity, yet federal workplaces actively enable poor dietary choices with junk-filled vending machines and unhealthy cafeteria offerings.
Efforts to limit junk food availability in schools have shown positive results. Similar measures should be adopted for the federal workplace.
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Department of Health and Human Services
DHHS/CMS Provider Quality Forums
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Department of Health and Human Services
Physician
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Department of Health and Human Services
Morning exercise or stretching every morning
Provide Government personal one quarter an hour to stretch or lightly exercise to provide a way to get started for the day. This morning exercise would get our blood flowing and make us more productive first thing in the morning. This action may even help us become more healthy.
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Office of Personnel Management
Soda tax in federal cafeterias and shops to reduce healthcare costs
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Department of Health and Human Services
Junk the Junk Food!
Upgrade government cafeteria food choices to HEALTHY. Stop selling junk food, sodas, high fat and high cholesterol foods in government cafeterias and vending machines. This will improve health, reduce sickness, reduce healthcare costs, and reduce health insurance premiums.
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3 HOURS GRANTED PER WEEK - CIVILIAN FITNESS PROGRAM - HEALTH AND WELLNESS
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Department of Veterans Affairs
You ARE what you eat!
The default food choices in most government agencies are direct contributors to poor diets.
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Healthy lifestyles trickle down
Reduce health care costs by encouraging employees to lead healthy lifestyles. Create an incentive program for individuals interested in biking or walking to work, joining a local fitness center, or purchasing a pass to local parks and hiking trails. Promote healthy living and benefits will be seen in all aspects of government!
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Support a healther workforce.
Simply by installing exercise equipment in all government facilities, we can have a healthier workforce. Most federal positions require a large amount of time sitting at a desk in front of a computer. By having an exercise room in every building, employees can work out stress, lose weight and regain a healthier life style. Perhaps work this room into the next building lease.
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Department of Health and Human Services
Self-Insured Federal Health Care Plan
Self insure for health care. Why go through blue cross blue shield and other horribly over priced health care providers? The government has a massive work force which could easily sustain a health care program without the costly middlemen and brokers like bluecross/blueshield. The government self insures rental cars, why not health care?
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Department of Health and Human Services
Taking a power nap to refresh the brain and be efficient
'Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a new job.' ~Jay Leno quote.
Taking a power nap to refresh the brain and be efficient in your job or find a new job. Be creative, reponsible, happy and healthy.