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Healthy Lifestyles

If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times:
if you’ve got your health, you’ve got everything!  Sadly,
few of us truly realize the wisdom in this adage until something
goes wrong and it’s too late. Perhaps even sadder, all too
few of us fully realize how much we can do to positively
influence our health.

The choices you make – everything from what you eat to how
often you exercise (or do not), whether you smoke or avoid
cigarettes altogether, whether you schedule annual check ups
with your doctor or not, can make an enormous difference in
your health.

"A Healthier US Starts Here" is a campaign
to promote use of preventive health care
benefits for Medicare beneficiares. Click
 here to learn more.