Wellness Happenings

Five To Thrive Nutritional Challenge

This challenge is designed to promote positive eating habits and to provide tips about how to work more fruits and vegetables into your diet. Have fun working on wellness while tracking your fruit and vegetable intake.

How do I participate?

Registration opens Jan. 25, and goes through Feb. 8. 

The challenge begins on Feb. 1, and ends on Feb. 28. We encourage you to record your daily fruit and vegetable intake, so that you stay on track towards reaching your nutrition goals.

How much is a serving of fruits and/or vegetables?

A serving of vegetables equals two cups of raw leafy vegetables; one cup of chopped, cooked or canned vegetables; or one cup of vegetable juice.

A serving of fruit equals one medium fruit (about the size of a baseball); 1/2 cup chopped, cooked or canned fruit; or 1/2 cup of fruit juice.

Register and record your progress at www.webmdhealth.com/vpc

Make sure to log your progress by 6 p.m. ET on March 7 to get credit for the challenge.

Earn your Q1 wellness incentive following these easy steps by March 31:

• Visit this link: webmdhealth.com/VPC
• Hover over 3 horizontal lines in the top right-hand corner
• Click on REWARDS under the three lines
• Scroll to view all the ways to earn
• Click on a category to view options to earn 
• Click on report completion to earn
• Your points earned should be updated under Q1 incentives

Wellness Wednesdays

Join Simone McKelvey, director of student services at Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences, and Christine Flory, wellness navigator, for our monthly series Wellness Wednesdays.

This collaboration provides you with important information on a wellness topic via a short newsletter, so you can walk away with tangible and actionable tools.

January/February Wellness Wednesday

Join guest speaker Dr. Lora Cantwell, professor of social work at MBU, as she discusses mental health hygiene and why it’s so important for your overall wellness.

Check out the 5 minute clip here. Then, join us on campus for our “take action” portion of Wellness Wednesdays:

Mental Health Hygiene
12-12:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 1
Main campus: Spencer Center
Murphy Deming: Room 156
Event will also be live streamed. Free snacks!

Upcoming Wellness Wednesdays

• March 1: Managing Anxiety 
• March 29: Take Back Your Time

Free Yoga Fridays with Christine: For faculty/staff and students

We meet virtually via Zoom from 12 to 12:45 p.m. every week on Friday. All levels welcome.

Use the following link every week. These sessions will also be recorded and shared with the MBU community. Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82419489182?pwd=VjFFZ1VOZ3lRWWxXUUtDNFAxdk5JQT09

Head to the MBU wellness website for all the recorded yoga classes and Wellness Wednesdays workshops.

Save the Date: Wellness Week

Wellness Week is coming on April 3 through 9.

Join us for a week-long celebration as we take a deep dive into how to support all dimensions of your wellness. Stay tuned for more information about this community collaboration!

To view a seminar on demand, go to anthemeap.com and enter your company code: MBU

You’ll find a link to these and other seminars on the homepage.

You can submit a question and receive a response via email. Questions are logged in a FAQ section, so you can browse and learn from the questions of others.

February Webinar: Financial Fitness

Date/Time: Feb. 7 at noon

ID: ATHM104807

Attendee Link: Here

Audio conference: To receive a call back, provide your phone number when you join the event, or call the number below and enter the access code.

United States Toll: +1-408-418-9388

Webinar Password: KvpUUfU4V87

Click here to watch the recording of January’s webinar, Dealing with Mental Health Issues.