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Healthy Living Newsletter

Are you interested in improving your health and preventing illness and disease? If you are, WellNotes can help keep you informed about the latest research and guidelines on health living.

Each month you receive a summary of research findings showing you how to:

• Enhance your health

• Prevent serious disease

• Live a longer healthier life

• Feel your best

You will also receive: a monthly wellness challenge -- a chance to put a key health habit into practice in your life, a healthy recipe to try, a special health features, and links for further study. WellNotes can be your wellness coach, helping you put healthy living into practice.

Health Links  Additional resources on healthy living

• Talk About Sleep. Having trouble sleeping? Here is a site that can help you deal with insomnia and get a good night's sleep. Learn all about sleep and how it effects your health.

• Your Guide to Lowering High Blood Pressure. A  booklet prepared by the National Institutes of Health. Learn practical steps for lowering your blood pressure. 20 page guide (PDF)

• The DASH Eating Plan. Learn how this eating plan can lower your blood pressure and your risk of heart disease. Included are menu's and some recipes. Developed by the National Institutes of Health. 24 page guide (PDF)

• Guide to Good Health for Children. An excellent web site with guidelines for children's health. Prepared by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

• Great American Smokeout. Learn what the American Cancer Society has to offer to help people stop smoking. Take the stop smoking quiz to find out the best way to stop.

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New Health Guidelines

One in Two Americans over the age of 50 will be at risk for bone fractures from osteoporosis by the year 2020. See the new US Surgeon General's Report on Bone Health.

Bone Health and What It Means to You, a 24 page booklet on building strong bones. An excellent guide! Prepared from the new Surgeon General's report on Healthy Bones.

Healthy Weight. Good information on weight management. Developed by Harvard School of Public Health.

Guide to Quitting Smoking by the American Cancer Society.