M.Y.
Ventures, a natural healthcare center, has initiated a Healthy Living Campaign to
promote healthy lifestyles among business people and communities.
The
project dubbed “Wellness at Work; Ensuring a Happy, Healthy Workforce” incorporates
achievable, small steps for healthy eating and physical activity into everyday
life.
It
was launched in Kumasi with a free health screening and a talk on healthy
living for staff of Multimedia Group, Kumasi Division.
According
to Clement Des Bordes, Operations Manager and Head of the Business Development
Unit at M.Y. Ventures, factors such as tight work schedules, production
deadlines and other work-related challenges has driven the country’s labour
force to either neglect matters of personal health.
He
said it was high time people took their health needs seriously by embracing
behavioural change, especially in their eating habits, whilst desisting from
attributing all ailments to witchcraft.
“The
Wellness at Work project is the first of several other outreach programs to be
initiated by M.Y. Ventures. We believe that health is
present when the human body’s physical, chemical, nutritional and emotional
aspects are balanced. We also believe that Healthy Living is a right and NOT a
privilege or luxury and we intend to spread this project to schools,
churches, social clubs and other entities in our bid to spread the gospel of
good health to the entire populace”, stated Mr. Des Bordes.
The
campaign will be carried out in phases to reach all parts of the country. It
will involve presentations on healthy living practices by Dr. Caesar, Chief
Executive Officer of M.Y. Ventures, medical screening and free sampling of some
of M.Y. Ventures high quality natural health products and food supplements.
Dr.
Caesar said the special programs are also available to all institutions upon
request, and he is hopeful that “the on-going campaign would serve as a
platform for people to know their health status, to enable them live healthier,
longer lives and increase productivity at their respective workplaces”.
Meanwhile,
he has emphasized the need for Ghanaian corporate institutions to engage the
services of nutritionists to protect the health of their workforce.
“We
must bear in mind that when people are grouped as an institution, they are human
beings that need all the care, including health”, he observed. “I propose that
every organization should get a nutritionist; now our problem is food – what to
eat, when to eat and how to go about it when we get problem – so we must have a
primary health educationist in each institution so that we can always be
healthy”.
Dr.
Caesar said one of the major aims of the project is to educate the public on
best eating practices to prevent diseases and avoid the problems of curing diseases.
“If
we work hand-in-hand, our institutions can be very strong; we can boast of very
strong workforce and that can yield high productivity”, he emphasized.
M.Y.
Venture provides alternative natural healthcare and the firm is one of the
nation’s leading providers of quality food supplements and natural health care
services.
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