Advice on healthy living is hitting the road. Cooper Complete has joined radio personality Dave Nemo to help fight the serious health risks facing more than 3.5 million truck drivers across the U.S., whose job requirements make it challenging to lead healthy lifestyles.
The challenges are linked with serious health threats for truckers. According to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average life expectancy of the U.S. truck driver is 61, roughly 16 years younger than the average American.
Nemo’s radio show is a direct route to reaching over-the-road truckers while they are on the job. For over 30 years, Nemo has been the trusted voice on which truckers rely on a daily basis. Nemo is heard seven days a week on The Road Dog Channel of Sirius/XM radio (Sirius channel 147 and XM channel 171) from 7 to 11 AM (EST).
Nemo hosts Todd Whitthorne, president and CEO of Cooper Concepts and noted health authority, as part of the Fitness Friday segment on Road Dog. Whitthorne joins Nemo on-air every 3rd Friday (at 10 AM EST). The two discuss the importance of healthy choices related to exercise, nutrition, stress management and supplementation.
Cooper’s support via the radio program is part of a larger effort to promote health and wellness for truckers. Cooper is also sponsoring the mobile health tour driven by the St. Christopher Driver Development and Relief Fund (SCF), providing free samples of a new health supplement line and sharing five percent of the proceeds from all sales of the line with the charity.
The SCF is offering free health screenings and education to over-the-road truckers via its Medical Resource Vehicle (MeRV). The mobile unit will be touring truck shows and will be promoted through radio and CB chatter to help reach, educate and screen truckers across the United States.
“All Americans, truckers included, are sorely lacking in the critical nutrients of omega-3 and vitamin D,” said Whitthorne. “We saw a great opportunity to help with a solution. Thousands of scientific studies support the benefits of both omega-3 and vitamin D for the heart, brain, eyes and immune system.”
The Cooper Complete Healthy Body Pack
The Cooper Complete Healthy Body Pack makes it easy for a busy trucker to get the proper nutrients, in the proper amounts, in a convenient cellophane packet. The Healthy Body Pack provides a 30-day supply of a daily multivitamin (with 2,000 IU of vitamin D) and high concentration omega-3 fish oil (with 1,200 mg of EPA and DHA – the important “long chain” omega-3’s). The Healthy Body Pack canister is convenient, compact and easily fits in the cab of the truck.
Truckers who order online at www.coopercomplete.com can simply enter the code “Nemo” and receive an automatic 10 percent discount. If they choose to order by phone (888-393-2221), they will receive the same 10 percent discount by mentioning “Nemo” to the customer service representative. In addition, another five percent of all orders from truckers will be donated to the SCF, established to help assist professional drivers in need.
According to truckinfo.net, the United States economy depends on trucks to deliver nearly 70 percent of all freight transported annually in the U.S., accounting for $671 billion worth of manufactured and retail goods transported by truck in the U.S. alone.
For over 40 years Dr. Ken Cooper has dedicated his life to keeping people healthy, understanding that it’s easier – and less expensive – to maintain good health than to regain it once it’s lost. Cooper’s recommendations regarding exercise, nutrition, stress management and supplementation can help those who are ready to embrace a healthy lifestyle.
To check the MeRV calendar, go to http://www.brownbearsw.com/freecal/SCFMERV. Learn more at www.davenemo.com.
For more information on Cooper Complete, go to http://www.coopercomplete.com/ or call 972-560-2702.
Follow Cooper Complete on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/#!/CooperAerobics), Twitter – (http://twitter.com/cooperaerobics) and their blog (http://cooperwellness.blogspot.com).
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For more information on Cooper Complete vitamins, or to arrange an interview with Todd Whitthorne, president and CEO of Cooper Concepts, contact Jo Trizila at 972-247-1369 or jo@trizcom.com.
About:
Cooper Concepts, Inc. oversees Cooper Complete nutritional supplements from creation to distribution. Dr. Kenneth Cooper, founder of the Cooper Clinic in Dallas, has long believed in supplementation and introduced his own line of multivitamins and supplements to consumers in 1998. Today, Cooper Complete is sold in retail stores across the nation and online.
