Teen & Adolescent Weight Management
Teen and adolescent obesity is on the rise.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 17 percent of youth ages 12-19 are overweight. Research shows that up to 80 percent of overweight youth become overweight adults.
One powerful way to fight rising health care costs and improve the health of your employees' families is to extend your wellness offerings to your employees' teens and adolescents. Helping today's teens develop healthy habits will impact the employees you have now and will make for a healthier workforce in the future. Decrease health care costs today and into the future.
Your employees' teens will gain immediate access to a health coach, whom they will work with for a full year to help guide them through critical lifestyle choices around food and fitness. When we're teenagers, we have more independence than at any other time in our lives and are learning to make more and more decisions on our own. This is the ideal time to give guidance as teens are beginning to make more choices independently. Teens are also given round-the-clock Web access to Ceridian LifeWorks Online for tools and resources designed to help them make healthy choices and decisions that will result in lower health care costs for employers.
Find out more about how helping your employees' teens can help your organization. Contact us today.
