Mealime Meal Planning App
Mealime: VIU employees get a 40% discount on a Mealime Pro monthly subscription. Healthy eating made easy with Mealime, an app that makes meal planning, food shopping and cooking healthy meals easier than ever. Comparable to well-known meal kit services, Mealime makes grocery shopping, discovering new foods, building your kitchen skills and planning healthy meals as painless as possible.
Nutritional Coaching by Homewood Health: Eating is one of life's greatest pleasures. It's also an area in life where we can get into trouble if we aren't careful. Working with a nutritional coach can help you sort through the conflicting information that's out there and develop a dietary plan that works for you. Whether you want to boost your energy levels, eat a more heart-healthy diet, reach weight loss goals, or address special dietary needs, Homewood Health offers tailored support. Call 1.800.663.1142 for confidential, customized coaching.
Lifestyle Health Coaching: telephonic one-to-one coaching
When it comes to your health, how are you feeling? Feel like you could use a little extra help to get you where you want to be? Manulife’s Lifestyle Health Coaching service might be what you need to convert “not so good habits” into “healthy” ones. Working with a qualified professional Lifestyle Health Coach is like having a virtual trainer, nutritionist or health supporter completely dedicated to you. This program is available to all VIU employees with extended health care coverage. Contact the service by calling 1.855.584.4004 or emailing mycoach@manulife.ca
Teladoc Medical Experts (formerly Best Doctors) is VIU’s medical second opinion service, and they have some great resources on healthy living including recipes in the monthly Teladoc Health newsletters found below:
- Back to School – August 2022
- Getting Through Cold and Flu Season – September 2022
- Emotional Well-Being – October 2022
MindWell U: Now a full suite of evidence-based mindfulness resources for VIU employees, for stress reduction, improved mental health, and better focus. Check out Studio Be live webinars and drop-in guided mindfulness sessions. Explore The Well, a library of 200+ on-demand resources, including webinars on mindful cooking, eating and nutrition.
Employee and Family Assistance available 24/7 at 1.800.663.1142 or visit Homewood Health.