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July 2025 Employee Well-being

July 16, 2025

Fitting Well-being into your Lifestyle

Finding the healthy habits that support your nutrition goals and sleep needs can feel overwhelming. Our cohort-based programming can help! Check out Practical Nutrition and/or Sleep and Rest. Both programs are free to benefits-eligible employees and their spouses/partners. 

 - Practical Nutrition

This 7-session course will offer insights into improving your nutrition intake and making it work with your lifestyle. Led by Dietitian Louise Cruz RDN, LD, and offered at no cost! Space is limited. Virtual via Teams, Fridays at noon, 9/12-10/31 (no class 10/17).
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Can't wait until September to get started? Check out the in Personify Health. 

 - Sleep and Rest Program

Throughout this 8-week course, participants will hear from local experts on a variety of topics in relationship to sleep. Participants will be asked to identify and practice the interventions that may work best for their well-being. Virtual via Teams, Wednesdays at noon, Oct 1 - Nov 18.
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Can't wait until October to get started? Check out the in Personify Health. 

Employee Well-being from Culinary Services

  - Culinary Services Spotlight: Sustainability

Culinary Services at 51ยายื is one of the largest self-operated, non-franchised college dining services in the nation and they take food waste and recycling very seriously. Learn more about how Culinary Services prioritizes Sustainability. Culinary Services and Sustainability >>

- Summer Recipes

Beat the heat with these recipes from Culinary Services that don't require turning on the oven. Fire up the grill and set the coleslaw to chill! 

Dry Spice Rub:

  • 4 T brown sugar
  • 2 T salt
  • 1 T + 1 t onion powder
  • 1.5 T cumin
  • 1 T + 1.25 t black pepper
  • 1 T + .5 t chili powder
  • 2 t smoked paprika
  • 2 tsp cayenne pepper
  • Pinch of garlic powder

Instructions: Mix all ingredients together and use as a dry rub on chicken, tofu or veggies before cooking on the grill. 

 

Rosemary Potatoes:

  • 1 lb red potatoes, whole or halved
  • 2 T olive oil
  • 1 t fresh rosemary, chopped
  • 1 t black pepper
  • 1/2 t salt
  • Pinch garlic powder

Instructions: Toss all ingredients together and wrap in aluminum foil. Cook on the grill with your protein of choice! 

Tip: for a crispier potato, toss all ingredients together and bake in the oven on a cooking sheet (425F for 20-25 minutes).

 

Creamy Coleslaw:

  • 3/4 cup light mayonnaise
  • 1/3 cup light sour cream (*or fat free plain Greek yogurt)
  • 2 Tablespoons apple cider vinegar
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  • 1 medium green cabbage, finely chopped (makes about 10 cups)
  • 3/4 cup thinly cut carrots (approximately 3 carrots)
Instructions: To make the dressing, whisk together the first six ingredients. One hour before serving, mix in the cabbage and carrots and allow to chill. Serve cold. 
Tip: This is a crowd pleaser. But, if you don't need potluck-sized quantities, you can easily make half or even quarter of the recipe. 
 
*The WellWorks Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Louise Cruz, recommends substituting sour cream with fat free plain Greek yogurt to maintain creaminess but to cut some of the fat. Looking for more great nutrition tips? Try Nutrition Counseling with Louise! 
 

Hungry for more? 

Visit one of Culinary Services' locations or get a Faculty/Staff Meal Plan and let them do the cooking. 

Special thanks to our friends at Culinary Services for sharing the above recipes. Do you have a favorite meal from Culinary Services? Email HealthyOHIO@ohio.edu and we'll see if Culinary Services can reveal the recipe in a future news story! 

FY26 Biometric Health Screenings

Dates for fall biometric health screenings will be announced shortly following the start of the academic year. Additional details will be made available on the Healthy OHIO website and in the September 5 Employee Well-being Newsletter.

 

In the meantime, we encourage all benefits-participating employees and their benefits-enrolled spouses/partners to enroll in Personify Health to receive an emailed invitation to schedule your screening this fall. Pre-enrollment in Personify Health will be required for all spouses/partners before participating in a screening this year and is highly encouraged for employees.

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Free Employee Yoga Offerings

Yoga Under the Elms

Bring your own mat and water for this FREE WellWorks outdoor yoga series on College Green (Athens). Thursdays at noon through August 14.

 

Weekly Indoor Yoga at WellWorks

Join WellWorks yoga instructor, Jessica, on Thursdays at 5:30pm in Grover Center (Athens) for Restorative Yoga. This is free and open to all 51ยายื employees, WellWorks membership not required.