Just Enough for You: About Food Portions
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Have you noticed that the size of muffins, candy bars, and soft drinks has grown over the years? How about portions of restaurant foods like pasta dishes, steaks, and french fries? As portion sizes grow, people tend to eat more-often more than they need to stay healthy.
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Physical Fitness: Be Active Every Day
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Increasingly, researchers are learning that regular exercise and good nutrition are critical to sustained good health. In fact, estimates are that some 300,000 deaths each year in the U. S. likely are the results of physical inactivity and poor eating habits. These deaths range across a number of diseases, from heart disease and stroke to colon cancer and diabetes.
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Health Insurance Checklist: What's Most Important to You?
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Insurance plans vary. Before choosing a plan, decide what is most important to you. This checklist can help. Put a check in front of those services that are important to you. Then see how many of these services are in Policy #1, Policy #2, and Policy #3. On the checklist, write in the coinsurance or copayment rate, if there is one, and any limits on service.
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Types of Health Insurance
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Fee-for-Service - This is the traditional kind of health care policy. Insurance companies pay fees for the services provided to the insured people covered by the policy. This type of health insurance offers the most choices of doctors and hospitals. You can choose any doctor you wish and change doctors any time. You can go to any hospital in any part of the country.
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Health Insurance - A Brief Definition
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Heath insurance coverage usually comes in two types: fee-for-service and managed care. Both of these types cover a wide range of medical expenses, including doctor visits, hospital stays, surgery, and prescription drugs.
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Life Insurance: Which Policy Is Right for You?
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(ARA) - No one likes to think about needing life insurance, but the security and peace of mind it can provide makes it well worth the planning. It can be a daunting task to begin, but it’s an important step in taking care of your family’s future. Often, even when people realize their need for life insurance, they may struggle with deciding which kind of policy best fits their lifestyle and pocketbook or budget.
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Lack of Health Care Keeps More Workers from Going Solo
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ou’ve thought about leaving your job and working for yourself, but the security of your company’s health coverage is holding you back. You're not alone.More than half of U.S. workers would consider exiting their current jobs and flying solo as free agents if they were guaranteed the same health benefits as found in traditional employment, according to a recent study.
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Put-Downs: The Whole Story
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What put-downs really are
Let me begin by saying what they are not. Put-downs are not "harmless jokes." The test of the difference between a put-down and a joke is this: Would the jokester be happy if someone he respected used that very same so-called joke on him?
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After The Holidays Fitness: This Year Decrease your Debt and Keep The Weight Off!
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During the holidays, you were most likely shopping, attending corporate functions, dinners + visiting family and friends. Let’s face it, with so much happening this busy time of year you pay little attention to your body’s nutritional needs.
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