HealthTracks Health Link
Winter 2011
Get Out, Get Active
In this issue:
• Personal Wellness Profile
• Telephonic Individualized Health Program
• HealthTracks Website
• Get the Point
• Audiocasts
• Get Out, Get Active
• The HCG Diet
• OWC: Complementary Medicine
Program Links:
• HealthTracks Website
• Online Wellness Center
• Get the Point
Upcoming
Community Events
• Anchorage
• Fairbanks
• Juneau
Health Resources:
• Quick Guide to Healthy Living
Health Tools:
• Healthy Diet Quiz
• How Much Do You Know About a Healthy Lifestyle?
Health Tip of the Month:
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Quarterly Hardcopy Newsletter:
February 2011
AlaskaCare Employee Health Resources:
• AlaskaCare Health Plans
• VSP, Vision Care Provider
• Magellan Health Services
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Welcome!
Your HealthTracks eNewsletter is here
Welcome to the first edition of your HealthTracks Health Link.
The HealthTracks Health Link is an electronic newsletter that will be provided to you via your work email address four times a year.
The HealthTracks Health Link will highlight wellness programs, feature health articles, and provide information and inspiration to encourage a healthful lifestyle.
Personal Wellness Profile (PWP)
Now open!
The Personal Wellness Profile (PWP) is a brief online health questionnaire that will give you a report of your potential health risks based on your answers. The report will offer a summary of recommendations and resources to help guide you toward better health.
Click here to take your Personal Wellness Profile and get a full report on your health risks TODAY!
Telephonic Individualized Health Program (TIHP)
Get Healthy, WIN $200!
The Telephonic Individualized Health Program (TIHP)
is a series of telephonic sessions with a personal health coach who will help you customize a plan to achieve your individual health and wellness goals.
Register from now until March 15, 2011, and be entered to win one of five random drawings for $200! Space is limited.
Click here to register!
Click here to learn more about TIHPs. |
Leslie Anders, M.Ed.
WIN for Alaska, Inc. TIHP Wellness Consultant
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HealthTracks Website
Your wellness program resource
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The HealthTracks website contains all of your AlaskaCare Wellness Program information in one place. Take a look and bookmark the page.
Go to site. |
Get the Point (GTP)
Tracking System
The Get the Point (GTP) Tracking System helps you incorporate healthful habits into your lifestyle. When you track your activities in GTP monthly, you’ll accumulate points for things like eating well, exercising daily, listening to a HealthTracks audiocast and reading the HealthTracks Health Link.
To learn more or register for GTP, go to http://gtp.winforalaska.com, or visit the HealthTracks website and click on Tracking System.
Audiocasts
Exercise for your ears
Think of audiocasts as mini-wellness breaks for those days when you need some time for yourself, but the pile on your desk says otherwise.
Accessing an audiocast is easy:
1) Click one of the links
2) Turn up the sound on your computer
3) Press the play arrow once
4) Get informed
Audiocasts are also available on the HealthTracks website.
Get Out, Get Active
By Angelique Garnand
WIN for Alaska, Inc. Wellness Consultant
In Alaska, along with cold, dark, long winters comes an abundance of outdoor activities and natural recreational opportunities. Getting outdoors and being physically active is beneficial to our health and wellbeing. Many studies(i) have shown that active people live longer healthier lives. [read more.]
The HCG Diet
Get answers to questions about the HCG Diet
Learn about this newly popularized and controversial diet, and view resources to help you assess and utilize other approaches to weight loss and maintenance.
What is the HCG diet?
Does the HCG diet work?
Is a very low-calorie diet safe?
How much does the HCG diet cost?
Why is the HCG diet still used?
Where does HCG it come from?
What is HCG traditionally used for?
Is HCG approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
What should I do?
How do I know if other diets really work?
How can I lose or maintain my weight effectively?
Online Wellness Center
This month's preview
 Complementary Medicine
Complementary or alternative medicine might not be your cup of tea (although tea itself is sometimes used as a complementary medicine). Whether you embrace it or are just curious, read about alternative treatments that can work when traditional treatments alone don’t.
• Complementary Medicine — Growing in Popularity
• The Power of Complementary Therapies for Heart Patients
• Natural Treatments That Help Ease Pain
• Herbs for Hot Flashes?
• Acupuncture — Effective and Safe
Plus, visit the Online Wellness Center for articles on Heart Health, and Children's Health.
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