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What You Need to Know About Your Vaccine Card
After receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, you’ll be given a vaccine card. If you receive a two-dose vaccine, you should receive your card after your first dose, which will be updated upon your second dose. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),...
Let’s Talk About Sun Safety
Spending time outside is a great way to be physically active, reduce stress, and get vitamin D. You can work and play outside without raising your skin cancer risk by protecting your skin from the sun. Most skin cancers are caused by too much exposure to ultraviolet...
Frozen Seafood: A Heart Healthy Menu Option
The American diet tends to be high in saturated fat from everyone’s favorite foods like cheeseburgers, hot dogs, fried foods, and heavy desserts. The new Dietary Guidelines recommended consuming no more than 5-6% of daily calories from saturated fat, but many...
National Women’s Health Week 2021
National Women’s Health Week (NWHW) is a weeklong health observance led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health (OWH). The week May 9-15, 2021, serves as a reminder for women and girls, especially during the outbreak of COVID-19,...
This Month: Add a Vegetable
When discussing healthy eating, fruits and vegetables are usually talked about together. According to the Produce for Better Health Foundation, regularly eating a wide variety of fruits and vegetables supports both short-term needs (such as immune function and...
5 Reasons to Plant Your Own Garden
Gardens are great, and now is the time to get planting! Below, check out the five reasons to grow a garden, along with suggestions for what to grow and how to grow it! Why Grow a Garden? A garden is a wonderful thing to experience as a family. You will be making...
Fact Checking: Cereal Package Claims Versus The Food Label Facts
It’s been said before, and is usually true. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The same holds true for the food industry. Let’s face it. Marketing of products is big money and companies are targeting your senses to get you to buy their product...
Self-Care and Your Mental Health
More than half of adults in the United States will experience mental illness—which refers to a variety of conditions that affect one’s mood, behavior, feelings or thinking—at some point in their life. Mental illnesses can occur occasionally, while others are chronic....
Where and How to Dispose of Unused Medicines
https://youtu.be/agwaF2kYiUA Is your medicine cabinet full of expired drugs or medications you no longer use? Your medicine is for you. What’s safe for you might be harmful for someone else. The best way to dispose of your expired, unwanted, or unused medicines is...
Go for Fruit
Nutrition and health experts agree about the importance of fruits and vegetables in our diets. The 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans stress the positive health outcomes of adding these plant foods into to a healthy eating plan. Generally, fruits and...
Your Beginner’s Guide to Meal Planning
With all the beautiful food photos and recipes that you encounter on Pinterest, Instagram, and Facebook, it’s easy to become overwhelmed. Plus, the plethora of diet and health information available is a blessing and a curse. How do you eat clean? Should you follow the...
Change It Up, Little by Little
This phrase recently caught my attention: Little by little, a little becomes a lot. I even wrote it on a sticky note and put it on my refrigerator. It reminds me that small things count. They add up. Meditating for just one minute; adding a baby spinach salad to a...
Diabetes Alert Day
American Diabetes Association Diabetes Alert Day is on March 23, 2021! Observed annually on the fourth Tuesday in March, Diabetes Alert Day is a one-day “wake-up call” that focuses on the seriousness of diabetes and the importance of understanding your risk. Could you...
How to Veg IN
In a perfect world, everyone would embrace vegetables like they were chocolate cake; chomping at the bit to get another bite in. The reality is that a mere 9.3% of US adults meet the US Dietary Guideline for vegetable intake, according to the CDC. That means over 90%...
Get Some Whole Grains
The recent edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2020-2025) continues to support the need to replace refined grains in our diets with whole grains. The recommendation is that at least a half of all grains eaten should be whole grains. While a similar...
Crafting a Salad Starter Kit
It’s lunchtime. You’re hungry and you’re on-your-own to get something to eat. What are your choices? Even though all the ingredients are in the refrigerator is a salad something you’d make for yourself? Here is an idea that may help you say "yes" more often to this...
Are You Leaving Money on the Table?
If you're enrolled in certain benefit plans through The Arc of Washington County, you could be eligible for hundreds of dollars in wellness incentives. If enrolled in any of our medical plans with Aetna this year, be sure to complete your in-network annual routine...
Tips to Reduce Food Waste
We can all play a part in reaching the national food waste reduction goal – to reduce food waste by 50% by the year 2030. Start using these tips today to reduce food waste, save money, and protect the environment. At the Grocery Store or When Eating Out Pre-plan and...
Instacart in a Pandemic
Instacart has been a godsend for sheltering in place where I live, so I would like to give them a shoutout, as well as offer a few tips gained from my experiences. My parents who are older were asking about it and I have had other friends asking me if it is easy to...
Imperfect is Just Perfect
You’ve likely heard the sad statistic that up to 40% of US food goes straight to the landfill. Meanwhile, 1 in 8 Americans go hungry every day, yet even the wealthy don’t meet their daily fruit and vegetable needs. Fortunately, programs such as Imperfectly Delicious...