HealthAmerica and HealthAssurance

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An Apple A Day
5 Essential Rules for Your Health

• HealthAmerica and HealthAssurance
• Health Education Team

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What Well Learn

• What wellness is, and isnt.
• The importance taking a proactive approach to
  managing your health.
• How to incorporate wellness into your life at
  home and work.

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Leading Causes of Death, U.S.
Accidents Suicide Infections Kidney
Failure Lung Failure Others 40
Cancer 24
Cardiovascular Disease 36
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Actual Causes of Death
Other 15
Tobacco 37
Infectious Diseases
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Alcohol 7
Poor Diet Inactivity 35
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Lifetime Risk of Disease
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What is Wellness?

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• Flower remedies
• Miracle cures
• Magic elixirs
• Zen meditation

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Wellness
"constant and deliberate effort to stay
healthy and acheive the highest potential for
well-being."
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Dimensions of Wellness
Intellectual
Emotional
Social
Physical
Environmental
Spiritual
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Wellness Continuum
Physical, mental, emotional problems
Low level of wellness
Change and growth
High level of wellness
Average health
Zest for Life
Illness premature death
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Rules to Live By

• Take a responsible approach to your health.
• Pay attention to what you eat.
• Add physical activity every day.
• Approach life with resilience.
• Avoid hazardous behaviors.

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Rule 1

• Take a
• responsible
• approach to
• your health

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What Does Smokey Say?

• Remember
• Only YOU

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Take a ResponsibleApproach to Your Health
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• Do a personal assessment
• Do I smoke?, Am I overweight?
• Be honest with yourself
• Know your health status
• Learn what screenings your should participate in
• Engage in preventive screenings
• Periodically take a health risk assessment
• Take Action

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WellnessReminderSystem
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Take a ResponsibleApproach to Your Health
HealthyDecisions
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Take a ResponsibleApproach to Your Health
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• Todays four leading causes of death are all
  preventable.
• Persons with healthier lifestyles live anywhere
  from six to nine years longer.
• Persons with healthier lifestyles prevent
  disability by up to nine years.

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of Selected Chronic DiseasesThat Are Likely
Avoidable
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Sources Stampfer, 2000 Platz, 2000 Hu, 2001
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KidsHealth

• Tailored health and wellness information
• parents
• children
• teens
• Interactive
• games
• activities
• downloadable handouts
• www.healthamerica.cvty.com

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Rule 2

• Pay Attention to What You Eat

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Pay Attention toWhat You Eat
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• Food in America Today
• Fast food is everywhere and Americans are eating
  it up.
• Spending on fast food has increased exponentially
  in recent years.
• The fast food industry is growing at an alarming
  rate.

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Pay Attention toWhat You Eat
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At the current rate of increase, all
Americans will be overweight in the year 2059.
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Pay Attention toWhat You Eat
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• Should you be concerned?
• Poor nutrition increases your risk for a number
  of diseases of life threatening diseases.
• Cancer
• Heart disease
• Diabetes
• Obesity and overweight cause 300,000 deaths
  annually.

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"Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest
carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin
pie." -Jim Davis, "Garfield"
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Pay Attention toWhat You Eat
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• Good Nutrition...
• Lowers your risk for heart disease, stroke,
  cancer, diabetes and osteoporosis.
• Helps you lose and maintain a healthy weight.
• Gives you healthier, stronger bones.
• Allows you to look and feel better about yourself.

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Pay Attention toWhat You Eat
20 Years Ago
Today
Mocha Coffee (with steamed whole milk and mocha
syrup)
Coffee (with whole milk and sugar)
How many calories are in todays coffee?
8 ounces 45 calories
Coffee
Source National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
Obesity Education Initiative
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Pay Attention toWhat You Eat
20 Years Ago
Today
Mocha Coffee (with steamed whole milk and mocha
syrup)
Coffee (with whole milk and sugar)
305 more calories!
16 ounces 350 calories
8 ounces 45 calories
Coffee
Source National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
Obesity Education Initiative
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Pay Attention toWhat You Eat
How long will you have to walk in order to
burn those extra 305 calories?
Based on 130-pound person
Source National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
Obesity Education Initiative
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If you walk 1 hour and 20 minutes, you will burn
approximately 305 calories
Based on 130-pound person
Source National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
Obesity Education Initiative
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Pay Attention toWhat You Eat
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• Tips for Nutrition
• energy balance
• eat fewer bad fats and more good fats
• eat fewer refined-grain carbohydrates and more
  whole-grain carbohydrates

• choose healthier sources of proteins
• eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, but hold the
  potatoes
• use alcohol in moderation
• take a multivitamin for insurance

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Pay Attention toWhat You Eat
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• make small changes that fit into your life
• variety is the spice of life
• budget your diet
• stock your pantry with healthy foods
• shop the outside perimeter of the grocery store
• Lifestyles Health Education Reimbursement Program

• utilize your freezer
• color your plate
• update favorite family recipes
• investigate
• plan, plan, plan
• document
• challenge your family

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Rule 3

• Add
• Physical Activity
• Every Day

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ExerciseEvery Day
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• Exercise in America Today
• Almost 170 million Americans dont get enough
  healthy physical activity on a daily basis.
• Approximately 42 million Americans arent active
  at all.

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ExerciseEvery Day
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• So why should you be concerned?
• Not being active damages your heart and other
  major organs - cutting life short.
• Not being active can lead to diabetes - a major
  cause of blindness and limb amputations.

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ExerciseEvery Day
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• Benefits of Being Active
• Regular physical activity
• Reduces the risk of dying from heart disease.
• Reduces the risk of developing diabetes.
• Reduces the risk of colon cancer.
• Reduces feelings of depression and anxiety, puts
  you in a better mood, and fosters a sense of
  well-being.

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ExerciseEvery Day
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• Tips for Getting Active
• Commit yourself.
• Set SMART goals.
• Schedule exercise during your day.
• Exercise with a friend.

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Tips for Getting Active

• Keep it simple
• Take one step at a time
• Pick up the pace
• Map your progress
• Create incentives
• Commit yourself
• Buddy up
• Set SMART goals
• Schedule exercise

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Rule 4

• Approach Life with Resilience

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Stress in America Today...

• On the Job
• 40 of workers reported that their job was very
  often extremely stressful
• 25 view their jobs as the number one stressor in
  their lives
• 75 of employees believe that they have more
  on-the-job stress than the generation before them
• 26 of workers said they were often or very often
  burned out or stressed by their work

Source Stress at Work by the National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health
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Stress in America Today...

• Frazzled Families
• 69 reported rising prices
• 62 say they have too many things to do
• 51 worry about having money for emergencies
• 47 cited health concerns
• 23 reported problems with aging parents

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Stress in America Today...

• Our Kids
• 1/3 worry a lot about school, family and world
  events
• 1/2 have trouble sleeping due to stress
• 13 suffer from stress-related anxiety disorders

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Stress in America Today...

• 50 of all deaths each year in the U.S. are due
  to social and behavioral factors often connected
  with stress, such as smoking, diet, alcohol use,
  sedentary behavior, and diet

McGinnis, 1993
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Approach Lifewith Resilience
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• Resilient individuals
• Take responsibility
• Focus on empowering interpretations
• Have meaningful connections
• Move on with their lives

Schissel, 1993
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What do you see? M.C. Escher
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Elements of Resilience
Energy Management
Sleep Choices
Creative Fun
Social Support
Self Care
Resilience
Attitude Management
Stress Relief
Life Goal Planning
Purposeful Activity
Dietary Supplements
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• Time Valuing
• Immediate Family
• Friends
• Physical Health
• Work
• Education

• Community Service
• Spiritual Growth
• Cleanliness Neatness
• Recreation

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Approach Lifewith Resilience

• Applying Resilience to Your Life
• Find balance in your life.
• Set SMART goals.
• Hone your time management communication
  skills.
• Establish boundaries.
• Find joy in your life.

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Pooh on Relaxing...
"Don't underestimate the value of Doing
Nothing, of just going along, listening to all
the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book Inspired by A.A.
Milne
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Rule 5

• Avoid
• Hazardous
• Habits

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Avoid HazardousHabits
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• Hazardous Habits
• Tobacco Use
• Drug Alcohol Use
• Poor Nutrition
• Violent Abusive Behaviors

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"If I knew how long I was going to live --- I
would have taken better care of myself!"
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Avoid HazardousHabits
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• Smoking in America Today
• There are about 46 million smokers in the United
  States today.
• Americans have consumed 17 trillion cigarettes
  since the first Surgeon Generals Report on
  Smoking in 1964.

US Census Bureau and the National Center of
Health Statistics
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QuitSmoking
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• Consequences of Smoking
• Smoking dramatically increases your risk for a
  number of different cancers.
• Smoking cuts your life short.

American Cancer Society
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QuitSmoking
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• The Benefits of Quitting Smoking
• Reduces your risk of heart disease, stroke and
  cancer.
• Adds years to your life.
• Improves the social aspects of your life.
• Saves you money.

American Cancer Society
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Tips for Smoking Cessation

• Set a quit date
• Enlist support
• Change your behaviors
• PA Tollfree Quitline
• Lifestyles Health Education Reimbursement program

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Tips for the Journey

• Take a responsible approach to your health Only
  YOU.
• Learn the basics of proper nutrition and apply
  them to your life.
• Get enough exercise and rest.
• Approach life with resilience.
• Make plans to give up one harmful health habit
  TODAY.

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Keep Your Radar Turned On
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a
single footstep." --Lao Tse, Chinese Philosopher
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