A Lidl screening may help a lot

Its motto is “choose to live a little” and after one of its staff had a scare last year, Lidl is making sure its staff can live longer by checking out their hearts and setting them a fitness challenge.

The company’s health and wellness programme involves a cardiac screening for its 3,200 employees as well as a ‘walk to the moon’ step challenge which will see staff walk 325,000km in aid of charity partner, Barretstown.

The initiative is backed by Michael Lyster, presenter of RTÉ’s The Sunday Game, who spoke of the severe heart problems he has suffered: “Almost three years ago I was diagnosed with chronic heart failure and this June suffered a massive, and what could have been life-ending, heart attack. I have since been fitted with a defibrillator and am delighted to say I am in great health.