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Health is wealth, so goes the old adage. Now, with more ailments than ever to contend with, and with healthcare costs and insurance premiums continually rising beyond the reach of the average citizen, more and more persons are beginning to see the wisdom in that old adage. It is not uncommon to see families spending up to $1000 on health insurance each month.

In just five years, that will add up to $60,000, which is a sizable investment. Worse still, that amount doesn’t guarantee that the family’s general sense of health and well-being will improve over the 5-year period.

Indeed much of what we call “healthcare” may better be described as “sickcare,” because for the most part, they’re merely emergency responses we get from physicians when a person is already down with one ailment or the other! And to make matters worse, the so-called healthcare system itself is gradually showing signs of systemic failure.

Should we also add that many health issues today are simply beyond the remedy of our once “trusted” physicians? To exonerate themselves, physicians now conveniently classify such health problems as “degenerative diseases”. How smart they are!

Truth is that back at medical school, doctors and their colleagues were not trained to stop you from falling ill. Their calling is to cure or heal you when you do fall ill. So if you’re going to stay healthy, it’s largely up to you! The habit of relying on your family doctor for good health is an idea that’s fast going out of fashion. More and more persons are now taking responsibility for their own health and well-being.

Indeed, your health is in your hands. By adopting a culture of health and wellness in your daily living, you’ll stay healthier and need medical attention far less often. It starts with what you do on a daily basis. Besides constantly watching what goes into your mouth and avoiding a sedentary lifestyle, you must commit yourself to a health plan.

You may design it into a 6-months, 1-year, or even 5-year personal health plan. Depending on specific areas of your health you’re most motivated to address, your health plan may include hiring a wellness coach. This will cost some money, but the health benefits are well worth whatever it costs you. Wellness coaches are good at helping to cultivate the right attitudes and behaviors that produce the greatest results.

They will also help you develop the type of action plan that will be easier to stick to. Wellness coaching programs are also available online. But it is important that you commit yourself to whichever is recommended for the goal you desire to achieve.

The beauty of cultivating a culture of health and wellness in your lifestyle is that it serves as preemptive measures towards illnesses. It also leaves you with the liberating feeling that you’re in charge of your health and your life. And if you practice it daily, it soon becomes a part of the fabric of your life-more like your culture. And what better habits to form than those that enable us to live healthier, happier lives!

As more and more health problems continue to ravage our world, there’s wisdom in taking your health and well-being into your own hands rather than relying on what government and physicians can offer. You can achieve good health by adopting enlightened self-care health and wellness practices. Cultivating a culture of health and wellness may prove to be the best habit you ever formed!

Diet is a very important factor for the survival of a People. A Healthy diet is based upon the organic elements that give and sustain life. Daily Nutritional Cleansing is the key to your good health. Many people take the human body and its functions lightly. They do not consider what they consume as having a direct and permanent effect on the quality of their overall health. Remember you are what you eat.

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What is real health and how do we get there? Getting down to your target weight, exercising every day, eating a balanced diet – is that health? Here are 7 Super Health tips that I’ve gained from my health journey.

Super Health Tip # 1 – Become Your Own Doctor – Get a 2nd Opinion – Your Own. Three critical facts about today’s doctors. First, they have little, if any, training in nutrition, or how to prevent or cure diseases. Second, they treat your symptoms, not the cause, and third, statistics show that 94% of them get paid for prescribing drugs. 3 good reasons for a 2nd opinion.

Super Health Tip # 2 – Balance is Critical. A stool Has 3 Legs – just one or two and you fall over. What you eat determines 70% of your health. Exercise determines 20% – do something. Your health environment, both internally, the way you think and feel, and externally, your social network, is 10%.

Super Health Tip # 3 – Discover Super Foods. Whole foods provide better nutrition, more energy, and build a stronger immune system. Eat whole grains and seeds in cereals and breads, and wheat germ, bran and brewers yeast. Eat fruits and vegetables and drink green smoothies, fruit smoothies with 2 or 3 green veggies added. I have my green smoothie recipe on my site.

Super Health Tip # 4 – Invest In You. You educate yourself, spend thousands on your home and cars. Invest in your body – for the best results over your lifetime. Take nutrition courses – read some health books. Learn what builds health and what causes degenerative diseases (tip: it’s what you eat). Read The China Study to revolutionize your life.

Super Health Tip # 5 – Discipline Yourself – No-one Else Can. Become a closet health nut year by year. Don’t broadcast it – live it. Many people care more about their cars than their body – and spend more time planning their vacations than they do caring for the temple they live in. Don’t be one of them. Incorporate what you learn into your lifestyle.

Super Health Tip # 6 – Health is a Journey. Your body is miraculously resilient. You can recover from obesity, alcoholism, drug addiction, and from abusing your body. Your health is always determined by what you do in the previous 3 months of your life. Commit to and become healthier, and live into your 80s and 90s, and even 100s with joy, zest, and bounding energy.

Super Health Tip # 7 – Become a 95% Vegetarian. The evidence is now conclusive. The fat, cholesterol, triglycerides, and carcinogenic protein from meat and dairy products clogs us up, restricts our blood flow, decreases the oxygen to our cells, makes us sluggish, causes high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease and cancer. Cut out 95% of meat and dairy. Fruits, vegetables and grains taste heavenly when your tongue isn’t filtering them through layers of fat, grease, salt, and sugar. The sensational Eating DVD documents it all.

by Terry Kent, founder of The Health and Nutrition Center

To your health,

Terry “Super Health Tips” Kent

Terry Kent, BA, MST, is a popular Health and Nutrition author and speaker and the founder and host of [http://www.TheHealthAndNutritionCenter.com]. He has taught many people how to reverse their Cancer, Heart Disease, and Diabetes by simply changing what they eat, and he is helping lead the fight to reverse, prevent, and cure these and all degenerative diseases. Access his videos, reports, and articles on health, nutrition, and reversing and preventing disease while building super immune strength and losing weight naturally without fad diets. Go now to [http://www.TheHealthAndNutritionCenter.com/eating-dvd].

The direct commitment of senior management and the participation of employees in the development of workplace health policies are an essential prerequisite to the successful implementation of policies that are designed to address the real needs of the working community.

The following main steps and/or activities should be considered in the development and implementation of workplace health management at the enterprise level:

· Develop a short policy statement from the employer or senior executive that explicitly states senior management’s commitment to and acceptance of responsibility for the health management strategy within the company.

· Educate managers and workers on the impact of environmental, occupational and lifestyle factors on their health and social well-being and on the economic situation and competing ability of the company to facilitate their participation in health management.

· Determine the role of the medical, nursing, environmental and safety experts and other professionals needed to assist in the implementation of the health management strategy in the company.

· Discuss economic appraisal of existing and projected outcomes to health, safety, and environmental health from the activities of the company.

· Train staff in quality management principles and standards to be used for the workplace health management system. These are the same as those applied to quality assurance in the management of manufacturing, servicing or marketing operations.

· Assure participation of management and employees in the development and implementation of workplace health management systems in the company.

· Develop adequate tools for monitoring and evaluation of health, safety, social, economic and environmental outcomes to determine the impact on well-being of employees and competitiveness of the company.

· Introduce systematic internal auditing and evaluation to be able to make necessary adjustments to the workplace health management system of the company.

· External audit by a recognized certifying body, if necessary.

Key steps in implementing workplace health Policies

The prerequisite for establishing good practice in workplace health management in companies is the conscious and creative support as well as the fullest possible participation of senior management, employees and their trade union representatives.

They would co-operate in the development of the workplace health policy and in its implementation with the assistance of appropriate experts, e.g. from occupational health services, environmental health services or health promotion agencies, preferably from multidisciplinary preventive services. Quality management systems and internal and external auditing is believed to be supportive to the creation and maintenance of a healthy enterprise. Leading companies are increasingly integrating their health management and environment management into the overall corporate management system. The health and environment policy of the company determines targets, define processes, and assure financial and human resources necessary to act on the health determinants and improve social and physical environments in order to:

• Create the greatest gain in health and working ability for the entire staff, and if possible, also for their families
• Provide a safe and healthy working environment for employees while preserving the general environment and health of people living outside the premises
• provide healthy and environmentally friendly products and services
• ensure human rights of the entire staff

Coming up in the next chapter ” Key Benefits of Workplace Health Management

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The number of Health Savings Accounts has been constantly on the rise since these accounts were offered to the public. Both employers looking for ways to continue offering health insurance as a benefit to employees and people seeking their own individual plan have invested in Health Savings Accounts. Why would this one form of health insurance be appealing to both groups?

A Health Savings Account or an HSA is like a personal savings account with three very big differences. First, no matter how you invest the balance, the earnings are not taxable as long as you let the balance grow with tax-free earnings or you withdraw money to pay for healthcare that meets government criteria. You can spend the funds for your kid’s check-up at the dentist, your spouse’s medical massage therapy, or for your own acupuncture treatment. There’s actually a long list of health-related expenses that the federal government allows you to use HSA funds for and any money you don’t spend on health care can keep on growing tax-free to double as a retirement account.

A second big difference between an HSA and a regular savings account is that you can get a tax deduction for your savings. You can deposit up to $3,050 for individual plans or up to $6,150 for family plans and take a tax deduction for the entire amount even without itemizing deductions. It doesn’t matter whether you use the funds for qualified health care or build a retirement fund with it. The tax deduction is still available.

An HSA also differs from a regular savings account in how you can invest the balance. With an HSA, you may buy bonds, mutual funds or stocks if you prefer. Of course, you can also keep your entire HSA in a regular interest-bearing savings account.

Who Should Start an HSA?

The trade association America’s Health Insurance Plans revealed that more than 11.4 million Americans are covered by HSA-eligible health insurance plans. That’s an overall increase of 14 percent this year. The association also found that in the individual market, 2.4 million people got an HSA plan.

This year, preventive care services are required to be covered with no out-of-pocket costs. That has opened the door for many people to take advantage of high-deductible plans offering much lower premiums than typical co-pay insurance. Certain of these high-deductible plans allow the policyholder to open an HSA. The greater coverage provided with high-deductible plans now makes an HSA even more inviting. Lower premiums of high-deductible plans help individuals maintain health insurance while also helping employers continue to offer health insurance coverage as a benefit.

How Do Health Savings Accounts Work?

You can open an HSA as long as you have a qualified high-deductible health plan (HDHP). You won’t have a deductible on recommended preventive care services, like annual exams, vaccinations, checking for high blood pressure, etc. If you need other types of health care that aren’t covered, you can use funds from your HSA to pay for it. Experts recommend starting with a deductible you could cover until you have built up your HSA. With more HSA funds as a backup, you can safely move to health insurance with a higher deductible, get lower premiums and invest the savings back in your HSA.

HSA balances roll over year after year. You can’t lose HSA money by changing employers like you can lose flexible savings account funds that are tied to an employer. There is one exception, though. If you spend HSA money for something besides qualified health care, you face a penalty fee of 20 percent on the amount you withdrew and you have to pay taxes on the withdrawal.

This year, that penalty just increased from 10 percent and there was one other change in Health Savings Accounts. You can no longer use HSA funds to pay for OTC (over-the-counter) medications unless your doctor prescribes them.

With an HSA, the public can make wiser choices when it comes to their health. Health Savings Accounts can be a cost effective strategy to cut monthly premiums, turn health care expenses into tax deductions and get tax-free earnings.

By Wiley Long – President, HSA for America ( http://www.health–savings–accounts.com ) – The nation’s leading independent health insurance firm specializing in individual and family coverage that work with Health Savings Accounts.

Achieve Optimal Circulatory Health with Quality Natural Health Products

It is simply remarkable how many people these days are choosing natural health care products for their well-being. The popularity of natural health products has skyrocketed because these all natural products have proven to be safe and effective and are used by people in all age brackets.

You might not be a member of the aging baby boomer generation; those born between the years of 1946 and 1964, but maintaining great health and well-being should be a priority in your life, no matter what age you are. Enjoying a healthy life is pivotal to your longevity and happiness. Having good health keeps you strong and vital, and that is the fibre that keeps you resilient to get through some of life’s challenges, that will inevitably come your way. A safe and natural way to maintain your well-being is with natural health products. Countries like India and China have been using natural health products and therapies for centuries, and many of their natural health products are used world-wide. An example of this is ginseng, renowned for its remarkable and powerful effects on mood and energy has been used by the Chinese for over 5,000 years. That is pretty significant and speaks volumes about the power of natural health products. I have used ginseng and natural products for high blood pressure for years and wouldn’t be without them. High blood pressure is predominant in my family, so better to be safe than sorry.

Celebrate Your Life with Healthy Living

Being healthy is so important to the quality of our lives. We should celebrate the life we have and that means taking the very best care of ourselves. As we age, the need to structure a robust regime of eating well, exercising and taking natural health supplements should become second nature to you. You should begin a healthy lifestyle in your 20’s and carry it on as your age increases. We all want and deserve the very best in life, especially when it comes to taking care of our bodies, minds and overall health. You are getting the very best that nature has to offer when you use natural health products.It is nature’s gift to you.

The signs of aging are much more than discovering a few more wrinkles, struggling with some “middle-aged spread” and an increase in annoying aches and pains. These effects of aging can be controlled with regular exercise, good skin care and natural pain relieving products. Some of these aging signs begin to appear in your 20’s, so you can never begin a healthy lifestyle too soon. Incorporating natural health products into your lifestyle will boost your energy levels and make your immune and cardiovascular system stronger.

The most important effects of aging are not on the outside, but what is taking place inside of the body. One of the most significant is the cardiovascular system, which are the heart, blood and vessels. They become less efficient as we grow older. Maintaining a healthy cardiovascular system is crucial for your vitality, wellbeing, and the correct functioning of your body. Threats to the cardiovascular system include high cholesterol and high blood pressure or hypertension, which leads to stroke and heart failure, among other things. A startling reported one in three adults has high blood pressure or hypertension. These threats can be reduced and prevented with a healthier lifestyle which includes exercise, not smoking and a healthy diet. There are high quality, natural herb based products that are proven to be very effective in promoting circulatory health.

In the last decade there has been an explosion of interest in natural health products. The reason is clear. They are effective and safe, and they help you with ailments and to achieve optimum health. Many medical doctors are now recommending natural health products and supplements to enhance the health of their patients.

Natural health products can help you in so many key areas maintaining good health and well-being. The results are proven, and there are superb products to help in so many ways, including; controlling high blood pressure, attaining easy weight loss, getting rid of hemorrhoids, avoiding hair loss and so much more, and the results are nothing short of incredible. It’s a well-known fact that when you feel good, you will look amazing! Natural health products will give you remarkable results. I know that because I use them all the time and so does everyone in my family. Make it your goal to live a long and healthy life, for you and your loved ones.

Linda McLellan is a Life Improvement and Well Being Coach. She provides guidance, encouragement and recommendation for trusted, high quality health products to help her clients achieve better health results. Living a prosperous life means more than having wealth. True prosperity means feeling great and looking fantastic. If your well being and excellent health is a priority in your life, then go to [http://BestHealthPlace.com] and see the positive results for yourself.