A New Year of Healthy Possibilities!

Make being healthy your resolution. Find ways to get and stay healthy this year. Tips focus on a healthy you, family, home, community, and workplace.

The New Year has long been a time for reflection on the personal changes we want to make as we look forward to a year of healthy possibilities. Health-related goals are popular New Year's resolutions, but sometimes we may not know where to begin. Below, you'll find ways to get and keep a Healthy You, Healthy Family, Healthy Home, Healthy Community, and Healthy Workplace. Take time to make a healthy lifestyle your resolution.

Healthy You

• Make healthy food choices. Grab a healthy snack such as fruit, nuts, or low-fat cheese.
• Be active. Try simple things such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator. Be active for at least 2 ½ hours a week.
• Protect yourself from injury or disease by wearing a helmet, sunscreen, or insect repellent when necessary.
• Make an appointment for a check-up, vaccination, or screening. Know where to go for care if you do not have health insurance.
• Wash your hands often with soap and water. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
• Be smoke-free. If you think you're ready to quit, call 1-800-QUIT-NOW for free counseling.
• Get enough sleep. Remember that sleep is a necessity, not a luxury.
• Learn health tips that take 5 minutes or less.

Learn more about Healthy Living.

Healthy Family

• Learn how to be healthy before, during, and after pregnancy.
• Reduce auto-related injuries by using seat belts, child safety seats, and booster seats that are appropriate for your child's age and weight.
• Learn positive parenting tips to keep teens safe on the road.
• Develop and enforce rules about acceptable and safe behaviors for all electronic media.
• Lower the risk of foodborne illness as you prepare meals for your family.
• Serve healthy meals and snacks.
• Encourage and support physical activity.
• Gather and share family health history.
• Encourage family members to get check-ups and screenings. Make sure they know where to go for care if they do not have health insurance.
• Get pets vaccinated and keep pets healthy.
• Add the 5 Minutes or Less for Health widget to your website to get new health tips each week.

Learn more about Family Health, Kid’s Health, and visit the Parent Portal.

Healthy Home

• Install smoke alarms on every floor, including the basement, and particularly near rooms in which people sleep.
• Make your home safer to prevent falls among children and seniors.
• Keep cleaning products and medications out of the reach of children.
• Have an emergency plan and practice it often.
• Store meds safely, put every vitamin up and away when you use it.

Learn more about Healthy Homes.

Healthy Community

• Know the facts about childhood obesity.
• Get your immunizations.
• Choose healthier options to prepare for climate change.
• Wash your hands often with soap and water. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
• Keep water safe for drinking, recreation, and emergencies.
• Get tested and treated for sexually transmitted diseases.
• Don't drink and drive or let others drink and drive.
• Add a health widget to your website that offers health information to your users.

Learn more about Healthy Communities.

Healthy Workplace

• Stay at home if you're sick.
• Participate in or help develop healthy workplace programs and policies.
• Implement a smoke-free policy at your workplace.
• Take steps to prevent job stress.
• Lower work injuries and illness among youth.

Learn more about Workplace Safety and Health.

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