If you usually find yourself approaching your resolutions with the same gusto as your new year celebrations, only to have them fade the next day, this year we can help make it easy for you to make them stick. Imagine waking up every day with the same excitement and enthusiasm that you feel when it’s a new year. You can! In this issue of Shine, you’ll find practical advice on what you can do to put your healthy new year resolutions into action and ways you can use your Bupa membership to get fit, eat well and de-stress. You’ll also find inspiring stories from other members, health information, recipes and more.
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It’s a new year. And if you’re like most people, you’ll find yourself springing out of bed with the best intentions for 2013. But how do you make those new year resolutions a reality?
z STEP 1 START AT THE BEGINNING
Find out your ‘real’ health age In order to come up with your resolution, you need to know where you’re starting from. The Online Health Assessment (OHA) can help you do just that. If you haven’t completed our OHA before Short or it’s been longer than on time? six months since you last did it, why not If you haven’t got much time, our Quick Health Age Check check in again to start is available online the year fresh? or as a mobile app. Visit bupa.com.au/apps for more information.
The OHA is a detailed questionnaire covering key aspects of your health and lifestyle to help you understand some of the risks to your current level of health. It looks at things like lifestyle habits (such as diet, exercise, sleep, smoking
Before you begin Have your myBupa login ID and password ready. If you don’t have a login, register for myBupa today and go into the draw to
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and drinking), stress and family history. It takes about 15 minutes and once finished you’ll be given a detailed and confidential health report containing your ‘real’ health age (this may be different to your actual age) and your lifestyle risks for medical conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. If there’s room for improvement, we’ll suggest how you can be healthier by changing some of your lifestyle habits. And, depending on your results, we’ll tell you about programs we provide that may be helpful. And because the OHA is free and you can check back in at any time, it’s a great way to monitor your health regularly.
By logging in to myBupa before completing your OHA, you can save your report to your profile and track your progress by repeating the OHA whenever you like.
GET STARTED Visit bupa.com.au/oha
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