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This article has 16 ways to do that. Any time you have a concern see a doctor! In between times, use these ideas to check yourself over between check-ups.
http://www.rd.com/living-healthy/16-ways-to-monitor-your-health-between-...
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Thanks Kay! I'm the type that only thinks about my health when I'm getting sick and I shouldn't wait that long. I needed that reminder to try harder.
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A healthy, well-rested person should wake up refreshed without the aid of an alarm clock each morning, not be overly drowsy during the day, and still have some energy left over for after-dinner activity.
I remember doing that about ten years ago. When I sit still now I can fall asleep on the couch no problem. :)
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A healthy, well-rested person should wake up refreshed without the aid of an alarm clock each morning, not be overly drowsy during the day, and still have some energy left over for after-dinner activity.
I remember doing that about ten years ago. When I sit still now I can fall asleep on the couch no problem. :)
LOL, me too. Thanks Kay for the article. This reminded me about the AARP/Walgreens Health Tour which offers free health check ups. There's an FAQ page.
AARP and Walgreens are launching a two-year national mobile health screening tour called The AARP/Walgreens Wellness Tour. The goal of the tour is to deliver more than 2.5 million free health screenings for early detection and prevention of diseases, as well as health education, with a special emphasis on underserved areas. The total value of the screenings to be administered over the course of the tour is estimated at over $60 million.
The nationwide tour will visit more than 3,000 communities in 300 cities in the 48 continental United States and Puerto Rico via nine customized, traveling education and health-screening buses. One of the nine buses is solely dedicated to Puerto Rico and is called the AARP/Walgreens La Gira Del Buen Vecino.
The tour officially kicks off on April 14, 2009 in New York City's Rockefeller Plaza. (The tour had a soft launch in February 2009 in the Puerto Rico market).
The Wellness Tour will offer six free health screenings, for a total value of over $140 including:
* Total Cholesterol Levels - Screenings raise awareness of high blood cholesterol as a risk factor for coronary heart disease, the first step toward modifying lifestyle to reduce risk.
* Blood Pressure - High blood pressure is one of the most common chronic conditions in adults; however, people with high blood pressure usually don't have symptoms, so they often don't know that they have it until it is measured.
* Bone Density - Bone density testing is a valuable tool in the diagnosis of osteoporosis and is a fairly accurate predictor of a person's risk of fractures.
* Glucose Levels - Blood glucose testing is used to screen healthy individuals for diabetes and pre-diabetes because diabetes is a common disease that begins with few symptoms.
* Waist Circumference, Body Composition/Body Mass Index - The nation's scales are going up and therefore raising public awareness about the problem of obesity and the risk of excess weight is critical.
Are the free health screenings for AARP members only?
No, a guest does not have to be an AARP member to receive the free health screening. Our screening service is convenient, free and important for adults of all ages.
This is the schedule for all the states they will be visiting.
Thats great advice!Thanks for posting this!!