Are you concerned with your employees? dwindling attendance due to illnesses? Take your concern up a notch by incorporating sports in your company outings, picnics, and team-building activities. According to the America on the Move Foundation, more than 60 percent of Americans are obese, which increases the risk of serious health conditions like diabetes, cancer, asthma, depression, heart disease, and join and back problems. Simple lifestyle changes like diet and daily walking can contribute much to weight loss.

Encourage employees to take charge of their health by giving each one a logo pedometer. A recent study said those with pedometers walk 2,000 steps or a mile more than those without, resulting in 100 extra calories burned in a day. A logo pedometer will enable them to track the number of steps they take daily, and they can chart their daily performance to study their progress.

Go the extra mile in encouraging fitness in the workplace by making walking a part of your corporate activities. Organize a walkathon and let each employee bring a logo pedometer. Walking is so more exciting when it is done in a group, and the conversations will enable employees to bond with their co-workers even as their individual logo pedometer logs their steps. Compare each logo pedometer at the end of the day, and give a special award to those who have put in the most miles with their running shoes in a day.

You can make walkathons a part of your corporate giving projects by inviting employees and stockholders to walk for a cause and invite friends and the public to join as well. Give each one a logo pedometer to track the steps taken during the day, and let them take home their logo pedometer to share with the rest of the family. You can find a wide range of pedometers, from the basic to the functional types, on Branders.com.