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Cigna Behavioral Health offers new and exciting wellness information every month. Click on the following document to find out about the February offerings.

Cigna 2008 Pain & Attitude

Are you still overeating? Check out this link for tips on how to stop overeating in 2008.

Diet Detective is a cite offering valuable information on health and fitness. Check it out. Diet Detective


Take a new approach in 2008. Are you tired of being unhealthy? Tired of spending too much money on prescription drugs? Tired of spending countless hours waiting at a hospital emergency room or doctor’s office?

Make your New Year’s resolution to register at MyCigna.com  which provides you with the tools you need to save time, money and start off the New Year with a healthier you.

Log into myCigna.com to obtain access to the following information:
• 24 Hour Health Information Line
• Well Aware Disease Management Programs
• Healthy Rewards
• Healthy Babies
• Health Quotient Health Risk Assessment
• Drug Compare
• Health Record
• Quality care hospital-comparison tool
• Healthwise Medical Encyclopedia
• Prescription Drug Price Quote tool
• Tel-Drug Prescription program and much, much more.

For example, once you log into mycigna.com you can access the Cigna Tel-Drug prescription program which allows you to purchase a 90-day supply of your prescription medication for a 60-day co-payment. A generic 90-day prescription at the local pharmacy will cost you a total of $45. By using Tel-Drug you will pay only $30 for that same 90-day supply for a yearly savings of $60.

You can start a healthy you by completing the Health Quotient Health Risk Assessment available at mycigna.com . The assessment takes about 10 minutes to complete and it will give you suggestions and ideas on how to lose weight, reduce illness and make changes that will result in an overall healthier you.
 


Just for the Health of It!

Want to get tips for Good Nutrition? Check out these links:
http://www.nutrition.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=11&tax_level=1

http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/good-nutrition.html

http://www.revolutionhealth.com/healthy-living/weight-management/?s_kwcid=weight%20for%20height%20chart|855583194

Having trouble sleeping at night? Waking up tired in the morning? Check out these links to get helpful tips for a better snooze and for ways to awaken refreshed.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/sleep-older-adults-1833974-krainson-problems

http://www.nwhealth.edu/healthyU/findBalance/sleep5.html

ARCHIVED ARTICLES


Link Your Way to Wellness & Prevention

http://www.lime.com
http://www.floridadisaster.org/family/
http://www.webmd.com/
http://www.mayoclinic.com/
 http://www.1-800-222-1222.info/poisonhelp.asp

 http://www.diabetes.org/about-diabetes.jsp

http://www.dietdetective.com/
http://www.mypyramid.gov/
http://www.dietdetective.com/
http://www.mypyramid.gov/

 


Healthy Corner Recipes

Smart Start Breakfast
Breakfast Bruschetta


Grab & Go Lunch
Crab Salad in Pita Pockets

Desperate Dinner
Black Bean Smothered Sweet Potatoes

D’Liteful Snack
Mocha-Nana Smoothie

 


Little Bites of Wisdom

"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art."
~ La Rochefoucauld

"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united."
~ Alexander von Humboldt
 


 


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