Preventive tools
The more you know the better you can be. Preventive care starts with information about disease and what you can do to reduce your risk of life-threatening illness. Here are some “tools” to help you stay on top of your health:
Alcohol can cause problems
Blood pressure — too high is no good
- Lifestyle changes you can make to help lower your blood pressure (46K PDF)
- High blood pressure: a leading cause of heart disease (32K PDF)
Cholesterol facts
Diabetes: What’s your risk?
Diet: You are what you eat
- Put down that saltshaker (40K PDF)
- Your pyramid to health: For Kids (1.25M PDF)
- Your pyramid to health: Tips for families (354K PDF)
Smoking
- Financial Impact of Smoking is Staggering (28K PDF)
- Quit the Nic program helps smokers (29K PDF)
- Smoking and diabetes (36K PDF)
page modified 09/23/2011