I was in the change
room of my local rec
centre recently and
overheard a couple of
guys talking about
how “Fred” just suf-
fered a stroke at the
age of 50 and that the
last time they visited
he wasn’t able to talk
or move the left side of
his body.

Apparently Fred was a
highly valued employee at
his company and they were

cussing how his boss
would do his best to make
sure he gor ta care of and
would get the necessary
rehab to help him r
much as could be ¢

Ie turns out Fred was 50
pounds overweight, had
high blood pressure and
because business entertaining
was part of his job, he had
poor eating habits.

Talk about closing the
barn door after the horse has
bolted!

Some companies are
keenly progressive in setting
up their own physical health
facility on site and hiring the
service of a professional
trainer to help motivate their
staff while others offer dis-
counts to local health centres
in the hupe that individual:
take the initiative and get
started on improving their
fitness.

Unfortunately, many
iastitutions don’t get past
the discussion stage.

They believe philosophi-

y he concept of help-
ing their pcople improve the
quality of their lives but arc
roadblocked at some point
in the structure of the orga-
nization because the concept
hadn't been budgeted.

Obviously all businesses
have to live within budgetary
constraints otherwise they
wouidn’t be around very
long, but what amaz
the low priority gi
health and wellness

Sales directors
nothing of replacing their
$40,000 company cars every
two or three years but t
and get the boss to invest a
tenth of thac in improving
the physiology of the indi-
vidual behind the wheel a
vou'll often get a strange
look

The problem is thar we
are conditioned to think of
health, illness, injury and
yes, even death, in reac-
tronary terms.

Someone gets sick in your
department or is injured on
the job and off they go to
WCE or sit at home while
covered by some general
insurance policy. This same
policy (WCB or otherwise)

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What abour
cast to the
involved?

He or she sits at home
waiting To get the necessary
treatment to return to Work
and ifthey are hucky it will
only be a brief time out of
the loop.

Others will nor be so
lucky and will suffer strokes,
heart attacks or diabetes and
be permanently restricted
from resuming full activities.

Some will just end up
dying prematurels.

We live in a disposable
society Where human efforr
is easily replaced by another
body and life just goes on
without any real attention
being paid in preventing
these tragedies in the first
place

I predict a time not that
far in the ruture where physi-
cal activity will be encour-

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Shane Caltins is a physical
ratuer and aihleriy coach as
well as an acromplished nltra

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our young people will starz . " oa

believing and caring abour mie
this aspect of their lives.
Jon't look for heip any-
time soon trom government
initiauves ar any “les e}
because itt going to hap-
pen.
Our owa North Shore
councillors are soll sitting on
it hands, atraid to be
politically unpopular with
the powers that be on the
subvect of banning cigarerte
smoking in restaurants
bars —- remember your
are either working, or cating
in these establishments!
The ball is in your court
and I strongly acvis
pick it up and do something
with it because experience is
not what happens to
manki
[ris what mar
with whar happens to hi
Atrhought: “You are tree
fo act the moment vou do
not look outsid rself for
someone to s your prob-
lems.”

part of the normal workday,
because emplovers will final-
ly have realized it’s a lor
more cost effective to retain
healthy, happy and produc-
tive staff ihan have to con-
tinuously turn over and
retrain personne! due to pre-
ventable disease.

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