Oh boy. I just completed my “Healthy Living” assessment at work

(Tim Adams) #1

These “Healthy Living” questions were hard lol

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The other questions were. How often do you eat healthy grains?
How often do you eat Fat or fatty foods?

By society’s standards, I think I Failed!! Lol

(Ethan) #2

What does your company do with this data?

(Tim Adams) #3

Honestly. Probably nothing… I only do it to win free stuff. They offer free things and money for being a “Healthy Employee”.
I just thought the questions were so way off…

(Ethan) #4

Id refuse to answer those things. These are protected health items and none of their business. They can use it against you.

(Shayne) #5

We have a similar program where I work. Since it’s healthcare related, it’s covered by HIPPA here in the States so the company can’t have the information. They can’t use it against me.

The program gave me a red dot on nutrition because I told the truth about my lack of fruit and grains, but I still scored 8.9/10 overall because they also ask lifestyle questions related to sleep and stress and exercise. Mostly they want us to participate in order to lower the premiums the company pays for our health insurance and they give us $500 in a health savings account if we complete the program (thankfully they give us lots of options for gaining the required amount of points - I’ve gotten mine mostly through exercise related activities).

Here it’s mid-Feb and I’ve already got 350 points. I’ll complete the program next month and won’t have to log into the website again till Jan.

(CharleyD) #6

My employer uses the VirginPulse program along with SelfHelpWorks coaching.

On the healthy habits about eating side there are daily checkmarks for eating healthy fats, but otherwise you get the impression that that it would be happy if you were vegan.

I don’t mind lying my ass off to these things. The last program’s ‘health coach’ (2011-2017) was impressed with my biomarker improvement but as the years went on she turned vegan herself and started expressing more concern over my choices. Good thing her opinions didn’t matter I was otherwise compliant with the program (including simple lipid tests and other vital stats measurements) to earn insurance premium discounts every year.

(Ethan) #7

I always take such programs as a personal attack against my wellbeing. As a diabetic, I am ketogenic for medical reasons. If my company were to ever hire a coach that told me to eat in a way that makes diabetes returned, I’d probably make it my life’s duty to get that person to go home crying everyday.

(Tim Adams) #8

Oh the joys of making coworkers cry… lol I like it

(Shayne) #9

In our program, the health coach is optional. I avoid her like the plague.

I have my annual physical, I took their financial health assessment (without giving them any financial information), and I participate in the challenges we set up for each other to drink more water and stay off the sugar, etc. We have some educational programs with a five question quiz at the end of each video that we get points for and we get points for exercising (self report), for every 250,000 steps linked to your fitness tracking program, and participation in what they call “healthy events” (also self reported).

(Ethan) #10

Ah. Those sound like reasonable things people can do. Do you lose points for eating fat?

(Shayne) #11

Nope. You can’t lose points in our program.

They don’t ask for your food log so long as you avoid the coach. I don’t know what information they ask for since I don’t go. Most of the educational stuff is mainstream, so I just let the video play in the background and answer the quiz with the mainstream answers, collect my points, and move on. I’m only in it for the money.

I do the exercise because my doctor told me to and I finally have some energy to burn.

(Ethan) #12

Ahh ok. I was asking because if they do make you lose points for something potentially medically necessary (e.g., a doctor put you on a ketogenic diet to manage diabetes), it could qualify as form a discrimination.

(CharleyD) #13

On ours, we can earn extra points (which we can cash out for cash, Amazon cards, fitness trackers) by connecting a lot of apps including MyFitnessPal and just tracking calories… grumble may want to join the MFP thing again, been a long time…