Resources for Staying Healthy and Saving Lives as Well as Money

Keep Me Well that allows Mainers to assess their own health. It offers encouragement for good health habits and warnings for areas that need improvement or watching.

The Maine Center for Disease Control offers a lot of information on conditions and diseases, such a Lyme disease, West Nile Virus, heart, lung, and many more. They also have info on environmental health such as Radon, Carbon Monoxide, and Red Tide.

Workplace health is also important and HealthyMaine Partnerships offers a toolkit to help employers make sure the workplace environment is safe and healthy for workers.

Taking responsibility for one's health is important and easier than repairing the damage done by poor health habits like smoking, over-eating, drinking excessive amount of alcohol, among other things.

This blog is about healthy living, and Maine Warmers' e-Newsletter offers information and products for better health and well-being. Those who subscribe to the email newsletter are entered into a drawing once a month for a free Maine Warmers Cozy Sheep or one of their other Comforting Creatures which are microwave heating pads that can be frozen and used as gentle ice packs.