PRE-RETIREMENT HEALTH TALK AT BANK OF MAHARASHTRA

Date/Time
Date(s) - 27/07/2013
11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location
BANK OF MAHARASHTRA

Categories

• Corporate Wellness
• Health Talk

A great interactive Pre-retirement health talk was conducted on 27^th July 2013 at Bank of Maharastra, Pune branch for the employees all over India. Around 60 employees aged 60+ attended the session. Health talk by Dr. Ravindra L. Kulkarni, MD Cardiologist focused on ‘Heart Health and Lifestyle’ which covered all the risk factors, tests, medical management for heart diseases. He mainly focused on how to prevent oneself from landing in to any heart disease and its complications. Nicely explained with all the basic tests like angiography, angioplasty, by-pass surgery and its need was discussed in his session. He also emphasized on how a combine approach of diet, exercise, lifestyle is most important for people with any kind of medical history. Many questions like What is the difference between angioplasty, angiography and by-pass surgery? What are the relevant tests one should do every year? were satisfactorily answered by Dr.Kulkarni. Followed by Cardiologist’s lecture, another health talk focusing on the Dietary changes for old age was conducted by Ms.Tejas Limaye, RD. She highlighted the importance of nutritious diet, heart friendly foods, exercise and stress management in her session. Why should one maintain his Ideal Body Weight? What does BMI indicate? How much exercise should one do after the age of 60? Such questions were nicely answered by the Dietitian. After the health talk people were very much keen to have personalized diet consultations from the Dietitians of Just for Hearts. It was an indeed a great experience being added to team’s work. A Health screening check-up followed by the talks which included weight, Blood pressure examination, Blood sugar level (random) was done for all the employees. Ones with past history of heart disease, diabetes or high blood pressure were advised accordingly. Also the one with absolutely normal parameters  will be gifted with a Complementary Telephonic Diet Consultation from Just for Hearts. We hope this association with Bank of Maharashtra continues for betterment.