Websites
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AHA Weight Management
The American Heart Association’s Weight Management site is filled with helpful information on the effects of being overweight or obese on your body. It also offers tips and information on how to lose weight safely and efficiently so that you can be healthy for life.
Visit AHA’s Weight Management Website
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MyPlate
MyPlate is the new national food guide to healthy eating. Recently released by the USDA, MyPlate is an easy to understand visual on how to eat right and manage your weight.
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Daily Burn
Daily Burn is a free online and mobile fitness and nutrition tracker. Use Daily Burn to help you achieve your weight loss and fitness goals successfully.
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Calorie King
Calorie King provides an online resource that provides the nutritional information for thousands of different foods right at your fingertips.
Click here to learn more about Calorie King
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United Healthcare: Overcoming Exercise Barrier
Identify and discuss ways to overcome exercise barriers. Discuss personal challenges while making exercise a priority. Review helpful tips to increase activity.
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United Healthcare: On Your Way to a Healthy Weight
Understand the benefits of weight loss and determine a healthy weight range. Review portion sizes and learn everyday ways to move more. Discuss the importance of tracking and setting realistic and achievable goals.
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United Healthcare: Move to Lose
Understand the benefits of physical activity and review common exercise myths. Understand the role of physical activity in weight loss, identify moderate intensity activities and learn how to plan your exercise routine.
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United Healthcare: The Truth About Dietary Fats
Understand the four major types of dietary fat and their sources. Learn how much fat is needed for a healthy balanced diet and how to avoid unhealthy fats.
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Print Material
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Anorexia Nervosa
This Live Well, Work Well flyer describes the symptoms of anorexia nervosa and advises where to get help.
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Bike to Work
This Live Well, Work Well discusses the benefits of biking to work rather than commuting via automobile.
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Body Building Product Warning
Learn about the dangers of certain nutritional supplements in this Live Well, Work Well flyer.
Body Building Product Warning (7)
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Bulimia Nervosa
This Live Well, Work Well discusses the symptoms, causes and treatment of bulimia nervosa, and how to get help for it.
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Count Calories to Drop Pounds
It sounds simple, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, most people struggle with this concept. This Live Well, Work Well flyer breaks it down and makes it easy to count calories.
Count Calories to Drop Pounds (7)
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Eat Well, Live Well
This Live Well, Work Well flyer discusses easy ways to improve eating habits.
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Estimated Calorie Requirements
This chart shows how many calories to take in each day based on age, gender, and activity level.
Estimated Calorie Requirements (5)
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Exercise and Eating Healthy
This Live Well, Work Well flyer provides information on the benefits of working out and eating right.
Exercise and Eating Healthy (5)
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Exercise Programs
This two-page Live Well, Work Well flyer stresses the importance and benefits of regular physical activity and provides information on how to get started on a complete physical fitness program.
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Food Density and Your Diet
Specific nutrients play a significant role in a healthy diet. This Live Well, Work Well flyer explains the concept of volumetrics and how eating denser foods can assist with weight management.
Food Density and Your Diet (5)
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Food Facts and Fiction
Are some nuts better than others? Does eating grilled meat cause cancer? Answers to these and other common food related questions can be found in this Live Well, Work Well flyer.
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Food Labels-The Breakdown
This Live Well, Work Well flyer thoroughly explains food labels. The various sections, numbers and percentages on food labels are described. It also includes a second page with a diagram of an actual food label.
Food Labels, The Breakdown (5)
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Free Weights
This two-page Live Well, Work Well flyer discusses how to safely and effectively use free weights to reap the most benefits from them.
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Fruits & Vegetables- The Essentials for a Healthy Life
This Live Well, Work Well flyer provides information on why fruits and vegetables are important for health – including what vitamins and minerals are important, different varieties of fruits and vegetables to try and a 10-minute recipe.
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Get Active
Employee newsletter offering tips on how to start exercising and make it a habit.
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Healthy Food Options
Fat and calories can creep up anywhere if you are not careful about what you eat and drink. Use this chart as a reference for selecting healthier food options when you’re out to eat or preparing foods for your family.
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Healthy Portions
With the large portion sizes served in most restaurants, it can be easy to get confused about the daily amount of food you consume. This Live Well, Work Well flyer explains what a healthy portion size should be – and even includes photos depicting proper amounts.
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Obesity-Epidemic Proportions
This Live Well, Work Well discusses the increasing epidemic of obesity and how dangerous it is to overall health.
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One Minute Office Exercises
Feel trapped behind your desk? Try this Live Well, Work Well mini-workout to give your mind and body a boost!
One Minute Office Exercises (7)
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Revolutionary Healthy Diets
This 2-page Live Well, Work Well flyer takes a look at some of the most popular diets on the market today.
Revolutionary Healthy Diets (4)
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Running
This Live Well, Work Well flyer gives some suggestions on how to begin a successful running program, and lists several physical and mental benefits gained from running.
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Sports Drinks, Carb Gels, and Energy Bars
This two-page Live Well, Work Well flyer explains the benefits of using sports drinks, carbohydrate gels, and energy bars before and after exercising.
Sports Drinks, Carb Gels, and Energy Bars (4)
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Stay Fit While You Travel
Keeping in shape and eating right can be difficult for employees who travel for business. This Live Well, Work Well flyer lists some simple ways to incorporate exercise and a good diet into a travel plan.
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Test Your Fitness Level
This Live Well, Work Well flyer encourages utilization of the President’s Physical Fitness Test, which determines participants’ overall fitness levels.
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The Importance of Breakfast
It is often stated that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Well, it’s true! This Live Well, Work Well flyer explains why, and also provides some ways to fit breakfast into a hectic day.
The Importance of Breakfast (5)
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Think About What You Drink
This article examines the calories in various beverages, and what can be substituted for a healthier option.
Think About What You Drink (5)
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Trans Fat- The Worst Type of Fat
This Live Well, Work Well flyer describes trans fat and how unhealthy it is. It also discusses daily intake, the secret to finding trans fat on nutrition and ingredient labels, and includes a list of the top ten types of foods with trans fat.
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Walking
This Live Well, Work Well flyer promotes the fitness benefits of walking.
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Water- Are You Drinking Enough?
This Live Well, Work Well flyer discusses the benefits of drinking water and how much you need each day to maintain optimum health.
Water, Are You Drinking Enough (5)
Webinars
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Take Shape for Life
Take Shape for Life former-participant and coach gives a testimony on how the program has changed her life, and how she can help you change yours.
Smartphone Apps
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Calorie Tracker
The LIVESTRONG.COM Calorie Tracker can help you reach your diet, weight loss and fitness goals by tracking your daily calories and exercise. Lose weight easily by setting your weight goals and track your calories and progress with our comprehensive online food journal containing over 1 Million food and fitness items.
Please click here to download the Calorie Tracker App! This App is compatible with both iPhones and Android phones.
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Text 2 Eat
Text any food to “352-42″ to receive nutritional info for any food item and gain instant access to our expansive food database. Making smart food choices has never been so easy!
Click here to download the Text 2 Eat App! This App is compatible with both iPhones and Android phones.
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Lose It!
Set goals and establish a daily calorie budget that enables you to meet them. Stay on track each day by recording your food and exercise and staying within your budget. The average active Lose It! user has lost more than 12lbs and more than 85% of our active users have lost weight. Lose It! is completely free- get started losing weight with Lose It! today!
Click here to download the Lose It! App! This App is compatible with iPhones.
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Restaurant Nutrition
The Restaurant Nutrition application allows a user to easily view nutritional information about restaurant menus and track what they have eaten. It can also synchronize their personal meal entries with the internet web site thePHRnetwork.com.
Click here to download the Restaurant Nutrition App today! This App is compatible with iPhones.
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40:30:30
The 40•30•30 iPhone App lets you quickly calculate the percentage of calories in a food from the three macronutrient groups: carbohydrates, protein, and fat.
Click here to download the 40:30:30 App! This App is compatible with iPhones.
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GAIN Fitness
GAIN Fitness is your digital personal trainer. This next-generation fitness app builds you a customized workout based on your body, goals and schedule. Just select your primary fitness goal (Fat Loss, Muscle, Health), choose your available time and equipment, and GAIN goes to work.
Click here to download the GAIN Fitness App Today! This App is compatible with iPhones.
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Fooducate
Scan and choose healthy groceries. Over 200,000 unique UPCs! As featured in USAToday, NYTimes, WSJ, Lifehacker, Gizmodo and on ABC, FOX, NBC and more… Get Fooducated!
Click here to download the Fooducate App! This App is compatible with both iPhones and Adroid Phones.
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Calorie Counter
Calorie Count’s free mobile apps let you get free food calorie information on the go. Log your meals, track weight, and get free nutritional analysis.
Click here to download the Calorie Counter App today! This App is compatible with iPhones and Android phones.