Healthy choices make for healthy people and healthy people make for happy and productive employees.

Macomb County Department of Risk Management launched its "Healthstyles" program as a way to help employees make positive lifestyle choices. In its first years, it focused on just a few months of the year. Now, the program has been expanded to be year-round. With volunteer committee members from nearly every department, the program exists to make it easy and fun to be healthy.

For example, Healthstyles sponsors contests that make it possible for employees to "rack up" points for making healthy lifestyle choices. Employees keep a simple log and earn points for exercising, eating five fruits and vegetables a day, drinking water or wearing a seat belt. At the end of the campaign, participants are able to attend a free luncheon where they can win fabulous prizes

Healthstyles also sponsors a bowling league, softball league, yoga club ,walking club, and free "Lunch and Learn" sessions that feature speakers on a wide range of topics.

Risk Management estimated that twenty-eight (28) percent of all employees participate in Healthstyles programs.