BHSW 2500 - Healthy Heart Plan Presentation

HealthyHeart Program
for Firefighters Occupation

Saving lives one heart at a time
BHSW 2500- Food Nutrition and Active Living

Gurdeep Chahal, Tiffany Madore, & Pham Bao Ngoc Vuong
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AGENDA
Food and Active Costs &

Target Market
Living Plan Savings
1. Target audience 1. Heart-Healthy Diet Plan 1. Costs

2. Functional Fitness 2. Savings
Workout Routine
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HealthyHeart Program for Firefighters
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● Healthy Heart program is intended to help 27 Toronto
Target firefighters in station 411 who are struggling with coronary
Audience heart disease, respiratory disease, obesity and those who are
trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle
● The ages range from 20-60 years old and the majority of the
target audience is male.
Figure 1: Age demographic of firefighters working in Figure 2: Sex demographic of firefighters working in
station 411 station 411
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Healthy Heart program is a combination of a healthy heart diet and
Functional Fitness workout routine.
Food and Active

Living Initiatives The objectives of the Healthy Heart program are:
● To advocate a healthy diet and regular physical activity among
the members of the station-411
● To further the prevention and reversal of cardiovascular disease
as well as the other chronic diseases

Heart-Healthy
Diet Plan
Nutrition Initiative
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Purpose of Healthy Eating Plan
● To equip firefighters with nutrition knowledge
● Support firefighters in the challenging process of implementing dietary
changes.
● Help the firefighters to have a positive control of blood flow, metabolic rate,
cholesterol level, LDL levels and blood pressure so they can perform
efficiently on duty (Healio, 2018).
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Heart-Healthy Diet Plan
● Offers firefighters with different options (including Carnivore, Pollotarian, Pescatarian, Vegetarian,
and Vegan) based on their preferences and religious faiths
● Created by a group of registered dietitians
● Aligned with the recommendations from the newest Canada’s Food Guide
https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/
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Heart Healthy Diet and
10-week challenges
Vegetables & Fruits (week 1-2)
● Aims to improving the firefighters self-efficacy

Whole grain foods (Week 3-4) and self-resilience by breaking down the diet
goals into 4 challenges and proceeded in 10
weeks
Protein foods (Week 5-8)
● Encourages the firefighters to make one or two
small changes at a time and get used to them
Spices and seasoning (Week 9-10) before moving to another one
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Challenge 1: Vegetables and Fruits (Week 1 - 2)
Every meal, make half of the plate vegetables and fruits with at least 5 different
types every day.
● Notice: Avoid high-sodium foods or foods containing added sugars such as pickles, olives, fruit
juice (Health Canada, 2019).
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Challenge 2: Whole grain foods (Week 3-4)
Eat 2 whole-grain foods everyday and adopt 1 new whole grain food every week
● Notice: Choose foods with labels that do not list any added sodium, sugars, saturated fat or trans
fat in the nutrition facts panel or “hydrogenated oil” in the ingredient list (Whitney, Rolfes,
Hammond, & Piche, 2016, p. 643).
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Challenge 3: Protein foods (Week 5-8)
For Carnivore, Pollotarian, and Pescatarian diets: limit meat, fish, and poultry servings from
100 to 150 grams of protein per day
● Tips to limit animal protein-based diet:
○ Choose lean meats and poultry and trim visible fat before cooking
○ Limit cholesterol-rich organ meats such as liver, brain, and sweetbreads
○ Limit egg yolks to 2 times per week and swap them with egg whites
○ Increase consumption in nuts, seeds, and lower-fat dairy products by switching to plant-based products such as soy
milk, almond milk, cashew milk
(Whitney, Rolfes, Hammond, & Piche, 2016, p. 643)
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Challenge 3: Protein foods (Week 5-8)
For Vegetarian, and Vegan diets: consume 5 different sources of plant-based protein per day
such as nuts, seeds, tofu, tempeh, etc.
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Challenge 4: Spices and seasoning (Week 9-10)
➢ Limit or reduce the amount of salt added by using salt only at the end of cooking
➢ Limit or reduce the use of seasonings and sauces that are usually high in sodium such as bouillon
cubes, soy sauce, steak and barbecue sauces, relishes, and tomato paste.
➢ Adding vegetables, vegetable oils, spices and herbs to enhance flavours such as garlic, ginger,
basil, curry or chilli powder, cumin, pepper, lemon, mint, oregano, rosemary, and thyme.
(Whitney, Rolfes, Hammond, & Piche, 2016, p. 643)
➢
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Functional Fitness
Workout
Physical Activity Initiative
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Purpose of Functional Fitness Workout
● To prepare firefighters to meet theirs on and off duty demands
● Health benefits:
○ Increasing the metabolic rate to balance energy intake
○ Burn fat faster
○ Lose excess kilos to maintain healthy body weight
○ Improve oxygen consumption
○ Reduce high blood pressure and blood sugar
(Tinsley, 2017).
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Functional Fitness Workout Routine
● A customized high-intensity interval training (HIIT)

● Created by a certified fitness trainer
● Delivered in an interactive two-hour training session
● The whole session will be video recorded so that the employees can have access to it online if
needed
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Two-hour training session includes:
● An interactive workshop
● Basic theory and knowledge about the HIIT routine
● Individual training based on the firefighter fitness level
● Hands-on training to perform various exercises using correct forms and methods using minimal
equipment or just bodyweight
● Question/answer session at the end
● Promoting wellness and fitness among firefighters
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HealthyHeart Program Implementation
Stage 1: Gathering information (Week 1)
Measure and collect health indicators such as age, weight, height, resting heart rate,
and body fat percentage.
Stage 2: Tailoring a diet and customized workout (Week 1)
During the workshop by a group of registered dietitians and a certified fitness trainer
Stage 3: Tracking the effectiveness of the diet and workout (every 2-4 weeks)
A survey will be sent out to assess the effectiveness of the plan
Stage 4: Evaluating the health outcomes (Week 11)
A scheduled checkup will be held to assess their firefighters' health indicators to see if
their overall health outcomes show any improvement
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Marketing Plan
● Publicizing and informing via email,
newsletters, posters , infographics as well as
periodic meetings.
● Emphasizing the benefits of physical exercise for
firefighters
● Putting inspirational quotes and infographics on
the notice board.
● Creating mini one-month challenges
● Provide free vegan food samples to encourage
the use of a plant-based diet.
● Rewards and subsidies that can be used towards
recreational activities which will further
promote a healthy lifestyle
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Required Items Quantity Total Planned Cost Notes
Certified Fitness
Trainer (2-hour 2 hours $300.00 For all employees
program)
Budget Analysis Minimal Exercise

n/a $100.00
To promote the
active living
Equipment
workplace
The discount is 50%

Customized Diet Plan when purchasing the
All employees $1000
(for 10 weeks) membership plan for
20+ people
For motivating and

encouraging the
Rewards and employees,
n/a $500.00
Subsidies Also 50% off on
certain recreational
activities.
To encourage the use

Vegan Samples All employees $100.00
of a plant-based diet
Total $2000

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● Obesity raises an employee’s healthcare costs by 27% and
obesity-related absenteeism costs employers $11.2 billion per year
(American Heart Association, 2018).
Cost Savings
● Employees with a cardiovascular disease lost 56 hours more per
year in productivity and this cost $1,119 more per year in
insurance (American Heart Association, 2018).
● Heart disease also leads to an average of 13 lost workdays per year
per worker (American Heart Association, 2018).
● By implementing our Healthy Heart program, employers will only
need to spend roughly $2000.00 to help keep their firefighters
healthy.
● In return, this will decrease absenteeism, increase employee
performance and decrease health care costs.
● Overall, this company will be saving on average $3000 - $5000 per
year.

References
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HealthyHeart Program

for Fireﬁghters Occupation

BHSW 2500- Food Nutrition and Active Living

Food and Active Costs &

1. Target audience 1. Heart-Healthy Diet Plan 1. Costs

● Healthy Heart program is intended to help 27 Toronto

Target firefighters in station 411 who are struggling with coronary

Food and Active

HealthyHeart Program for Firefighters

● To equip ﬁreﬁghters with nutrition knowledge

● Support ﬁreﬁghters in the challenging process of implementing dietary

efficiently on duty (Healio, 2018).

● Aims to improving the firefighters self-efficacy

Spices and seasoning (Week 9-10) before moving to another one

Physical Activity Initiative

● To prepare firefighters to meet theirs on and off duty demands

● A customized high-intensity interval training (HIIT)

Budget Analysis Minimal Exercise

The discount is 50%

For motivating and

To encourage the use

HealthyHeart Program for Firefighters

HealthyHeart Program for Firefighters

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