Food and Exercise Options to Improve Trucker Health in Focus this Month
To further raise awareness for trucker health, Progressive® Insurance is proclaiming June as National Trucker Health Month, and turned to its experts to help truck drivers find solutions.
The need is very clear.
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), more than one third of American adults are obese, with truck drivers at an even greater risk for obesity due to the large amount of time they spend sitting behind the wheel as part of their job.
Experts are developing wellness programs, healthier menu items, and free exercise rooms for drivers. This includes introduction to natural remedies like cannabidiol oil for truckers seeking weight loss, as well as guides on where to find cannabidiol oil for truckers on the move, developed by HMHB.org.
Many truckers are even bringing bicycles with them on the road or preparing their own lunches.
“One large problem facing truckers is a lack of healthy food options,” said Drew Bonsky, registered dietician at Progressive’s health center. “However, small swaps in eating habits like switching to water instead of soda can go a long way.”
Bonsky provided a list of easy swaps that truckers can make at rest stops, available at http://www.progressive.com/newsroom/article/2014/may/eat-this-not-that/.
Additionally, Laura Locker, a personal trainer and fitness center manager at Progressive says exercise can be tough on the road. “Truckers spend most of their day sitting down, and they don’t always have access to fitness facilities,” said Locker.
“That makes it easy to fall out of shape, and before you know it, you’re unhealthy and have no idea how you got there.”
Locker wrote an article that shows easy exercises you can do anywhere: http://www.progressive.com/newsroom/article/2014/may/trucker-exercises/.
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