Four-Hour Work Weeks: Are they for you?
My day job has a lot of perks. Great location, fun co-workers, individual health insurance and flexible hours. Flexible hours or flex time is becoming increasingly popular in work places. … Continued
Category: Other Insurance Posts
Think you know your health foods? Check out these surprising health foods
I feel like health foods are often a craze. One day eating a strict no carb diet is going to get me the lean and thin body I have always … Continued
Labor Day the safe way
It is Labor Day- the day to mark the end of the summer is upon us. The weather has definitely reminded us that summer is on its way out by … Continued
Learn from Irene: be prepared for a disaster
After Hurricane Katrina, news outlets have made a point to have extreme coverage on natural disasters of a large scale. And it seems like there are plenty of them to … Continued
American’s soda increase is skyrocketing: is it that big of a deal?
I work for a nonprofit that helps senior citizens. Before we can help any seniors in our community, I have to do an assessment with them to determine if they … Continued
Hearing problems in youth increase: what you can do about it
One of my favorite comic strips is called Zits. It follows a stereotypical low achiever teenage boy and his exasperated parents. I laugh now because I am no longer a … Continued
Get humana health insurance to protect you during extreme sports
Last week I fulfilled one of my lifelong (well as long as I can remember) dreams to go skydiving. Yes, I have wanted to jump out of perfectly good plane … Continued
Benefits of owning pets
While I was hiking in a national park over the weekend (Zions in case you were wondering), I met a couple from Nevada who was spending the week camping and … Continued
Big changes to food pyramid and daily exercise recommendation
Being healthy is a combination of a lot of life style choices. The biggest two lifestyle choices are exercising and eating well. The healthy lifestyle movement takes many forms with … Continued
Formula vs. breastfeeding: the CDC debate
Babies are on my mind. No, not for me. But I am surrounded by women who are pregnant, have recently been pregnant (new mommies) or who are thinking about getting … Continued
Fun ways to lose weight (no, really!)
Losing weight is rarely described as fun. Painful. Burdensome. Frustrating. Those are words that are usually describing trying to lose weight. It is the process that usually gets people, not … Continued
Newlyweds need health insurance too
On Monday, the world focused in on one of the biggest decisions ever made. As we sat anxiously on the edges of our seats, we wondered -as we bit our … Continued