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Great American Adventure – May 3 through June 13
Start your engines! Team up to trek across the United States — from New York City to Hollywood! Your crew is taking a virtual walk from coast to coast in six weeks, unlocking American sights and nine cities along the way! Ready to start? The challenge is FREE and open...
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...
About Fresh Apple Cider
When I was a kid, our church youth group had a fund raising project… making apple cider. As a group, we to an orchard to get the apples. I remember picking some off the tree, but I also remember picking them off the ground. Some of us even used shovels to collect...
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...
Employee Benefits: A Video Tour
Understanding your employee benefits just got easier! Click on the image below to access a video playlist that covers a range of employee benefit topics to help you better understand: Key benefit terms The difference between a High Deductible Health Plan with an HSA...
Can You Reverse Type 2 Diabetes?
Typically, type 2 diabetes is a progressive disease, but there are many things we can do to slow the progression or even reverse it. To be clear, reversing type 2 diabetes is not the same thing as a cure. To date, there is no known cure for type 2 diabetes. When...
2021 Open Enrollment Starts November 9th
Open Enrollment for employees of The Arc of Washington County begins Monday, November 9, 2020. For most employee benefits, Open Enrollment is the only time of year you are allowed to make enrollment changes unless you experience a qualifying life event such as...
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...