To help people avoid these risks, places like the health and wellness center at Grand Forks AFB, N.D., work to help people live healthier and maintain that lifestyle. Despite the mission transition currently going on within the 321st Missile Group at Grand Forks, its military members, civilian employees and families continue turning to these services to get help. These services include managing their weight or passing the bicycle ergometry test, to managing their cholesterol and stress levels. Deborah Oatman, assistant health promotions manager. Most come in to talk about nutrition, fitness enhancement and self-care.
Goals highlight many of the center's programs.
For example, its tobacco cessation program strives to curb people of the habit and keep them free of tobacco. The center's goal is to eventually have a tobacco-free work force, with an immediate goal of reducing its active duty population who use these products to less than 19 percent by the end of 1996, according to Sergeant Oatman. Increasing the pass rates on the bicycle ergometry fitness test is another of the center's top priorities. The center tests the overall fitness of a person and helps them to improve. The fitness test includes a bike test similar to the ergometry test, and also factors in the person's body fat, weight, upper body strength and back flexibility.