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Personal Health

Eat Smart is a King County program designed to educate, encourage and empower you and your family to make smart food choices. Shown here are the Vegetable Soup-A-Stars from the 2008 Live Well ChallengeKing County provides education, tools, benefits and programs to support employees in their efforts to improve or maintain their health.

Eat Smart

Eat Smart is a King County program designed to educate, encourage and empower you and your family to make smart food choices. Here you'll find information, resources, quizzes, tools, recipes and tips to help your incorporate more fruits, vegetables and whole grains and decrease the fat content in your diet. Eat Smart

Move More

Move More is a King County program designed to educate, encourage and empower employees and their families to make physical activity a part of each day. For tools to help you get moving, research on physical activity and resources here at King County see Move More

Stress Less

Stress can adversely affect health. The Stress Less program helps employees define the kind of stress they are experience and directly then towards resources and tools to alleviate the stress. Stress Less

Move More is a King County program designed to educate, encourage and empower employees and their families to make physical activity a part of each day. Here, employees from Central Base take part in the 2008 Public Health Walks Week.Quit Tobacco

King County provides fee smoking cessation benefits. Research shows you’ll be more successful if you have support to quit, have strategies to overcome stress and know how to manage your withdrawal symptoms. Click on the following link for more information on benefit coverage for quitting smoking and other tools that can help you quit smoking for good. Quit Tobacco

Choose Well

The Choose Well program gives employees the tools they need to use health care in a way that will save them money and ensure they get the best quality care. For more information on how to save money, manage you own health and find the best care in the region go to:

  • Choose Generics :   Generics are often the exact same drug as those with a brand name, but choose generics can save you hundreds of dollars every year.
  • Logon & Learn:   Online tools can help you manage you health, save you money and find the best care in the region
  • Personal Health Records:   Keep all of your personal health information in one secure location.
  • Puget Sound Health Alliance Community Checkup:   Often called the consumer reports of health care, this report helps you find the clinics in the region that follow guidelines research says works best.

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