Simple Secrets to Super Health

Simple Chiropractic Tips to Benefit The Whole Family

Family support is significant in staying the course and meeting goals. If the family works together, the individuals tend to meet with more success in improving their health and well-being. Cultivate’s on-site corporate wellness chiropractors work with hundreds of employees within companies. What we provide employees—chiropractic adjustments, nutrition, fitness, and educational support—effectively applies to spouses and children of employees, too. Here are some of the most popular techniques we offer employees to share with their families.

Small steps build momentum toward a healthier lifestyle

Cutting down on soda, for example, from 6 sodas to 3 sodas cuts calories while avoiding quitting cold turkey, which rarely lasts for long. Is it an ideal situation to drink 3 sodas a day? No. But it’s better than 6 sodas. Keep healthier choices readily available so family members can easily shift from soda to other choices once the threshold of 3 is met.

Make veggies fun for kids.

Kids react well to different-shaped foods, which is why pre-packaged food companies use this technique to improve the fun associated with their brand. Beyond fun shapes, parents might also “hide” veggies in otherwise less healthy foods. Is it ideal? No. But it gets kids more nutrition than they would receive from the unhealthier food choices alone.

Seek out opportunities to substitute recipe ingredients with healthier options.s

This strategy can improve the nutritional values of a recipe without sacrificing taste. Switch out sour cream in dishes with Greek yogurt. Or, blend vegetables into fruit smoothies. The sweetness of the fruit masks the taste of the vegetables.

Plan more homemade meals.

The key to overcoming a lack of time to cook and improving the likelihood that your family will dine together resides in the planning. Take a few minutes to outline healthier, home-cooked meals for the coming week. This eliminates the pressures of time and uncertainty of what to cook, which tend to drive you to the easiest solution: the drive-through window at the local fast food restaurant. Finally, involve your children in the process. Planning, cooking, and then eating together creates buy-in to whatever you produce for dinner. And, it creates more together time where family conversations flourish.

No time for exercise

This is the No. 1 response to why people put off exercise. Start by committing to one day a week. Choose an activity that you enjoy. Gardening, walking, kicking the soccer ball around with your children, biking, or maybe a family hike. Creating a pact with an exercise buddy is also helpful. This person also commits to an activity and an agreed-upon frequency per week. Each of you holds the other accountable. Make it fun, and it will be easier to stay committed. This applies, by the way, to healthy eating as well as exercise. Accountability is key.

These methods are proven to help in your journey to better health and well-being. With spouses of our employees accounting for 50 percent of employers’ healthcare costs, you can imagine the corporate executives who hire Cultivate wanted our on-site chiropractic-led corporate wellness programs to reach out to spouses and children of employees. We’ve invited them on-site to activities such as lunch-and-learns and fitness coaching, nutrition screening, chiropractic adjustment, and more. We found corporate healthcare costs for employees decreased d 55 percent, and spousal claims decreased by 18 percent. This is proof that simple changes to how we approach health and well-being can significantly improve lives.