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"ALIVE is an effective program for achieving significant improvement in diet and physical activity."

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, "Improving Diet and Physical Activity with ALIVE: A Worksite Randomized Trial," June, 2009

Alive! Individual Plans

Alive!, A Lifestyle Intervention via Email, is an email-delivered program focused on improving physical activity, increasing fruit and vegetable intake, and reducing intake of saturated fats, trans fats, and added sugars—all factors that are proven to be related to heart disease, blood pressure, stress, and some cancers.

Alive! helps you to take more control of your own wellness quickly and easily.

Why Alive! for Individuals?

Get started quickly and stay motivated through email tips, information, and regular reminders. Alive! makes it easy by taking the initiative, so you don't have to rely solely on your good intentions. Unlike most programs you find online, Alive has been proven to be effective in a large, randomized trial.

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Getting started with Alive!

Once you've signed up for Alive!, you will complete a simple dietary and physical activity questionnaire, and receive instant feedback on your current nutritional intake and activity levels. Alive! will help you set your own goals for the program, and will send you weekly emailed goals and tips to help you track your progress and stay on target.

More about the program…

Three paths to choose from
- Increase physical activity
- Increase fruit and vegetable consumption
- Decrease sugars and saturated and trans fats, while increasing good fats and whole grains
Choose one path to pursue for 3 months (12 weeks), or choose two paths—or even three—to pursue over a 9-month period.
After providing assessment of your diet and physical activity level, the Alive! program helps you develop your own goals in line with the path you've chosen.
Weekly email messages, tailored to your lifestyle, goals and preferences, help you track your progress and stay on target.
For additional help in achieving your goals, the Alive! program provides tips, interactive tools, and information about diet and exercise.

First you complete an online questionnaire to assess your current physical activity level and typical diet. This takes around 10-15 minutes.
You are immediately provided with detailed feedback about your current diet and physical activity. If you decide to participate in the program, you can easily sign up by providing your name and email address. This information is kept confidential.
After you sign up, you will complete a brief questionnaire about your lifestyle. This information will help tailor the program particular to your individual lifestyle.
You are now ready to decide which Big Goal you would like to concentrate on for the next 12 weeks. Perhaps you discovered that you are not getting enough exercise? Or you are eating too much saturated fat and sugar. Or perhaps you ought to be eating more fruits and vegetables each day? You can choose which big goal you would like to work on first.
Each week you will receive a messages in your email box where we will suggest several small-step goals you could work on in the coming week. For example, "For lunch, I will add a salad on at least 2 days". These small-step goals are designed just for you, base on the responses you provided to the diet, activity and lifestyle questionnaires. Each small-step goal will move you closer to your Big Goal. We also address barriers that may arise, and suggest tips with your lifestyle in mind.
In the course of the week, we will send you an email reminder about your small step goal for the week.
Every week you will keep track of your progress for each small-step goal you set and make a new small-step goal for the coming week. Along the way, Alive! will provide you with tips for achieving the small changes you have set goals for.
Your Progress Tracker will record all the small-step goals you have accomplished.
Every week, Alive! will provide new Health Notes about important health research related to your Big Goal. Research has found that being informed is an empowering and motivating tool for change.
Your Health Note Library stores all the Health Notes you have received each week and is always available for your review.
The "What If..." Simulator tool is an interactive program inside Alive that allows you to understand the impact that small changes can have to your overall diet and activity levels.
When you have completed the 12 weeks, you may then decide to pursue a new Big Goal.