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has a new look this month! We hope the changes will make the site even easier
to use-and a more helpful tool for taking care of your health. All of the
site's most popular features, like News and Online
Checkups, are still there, but a new main search combines relevant news,
Web pages, and organizations into one screen so you can locate the best links
more quickly. You can also e-mail health news stories to relatives or friends
right from the story page. In the Health Library, you'll find new quick
reference guides for diseases,
conditions & injuries and diagnostic
& surgical procedures. Under Organizations, you can
browse for key resources in new ways as well. We
spend a lot of time at healthfinder® gathering the best health information
for you. However, Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona wants you to gather some
information for yourself this month-he has launched the Surgeon General's Family History
Initiative and declared Thanksgiving 2004 to be the first annual National
Family History Day. Whenever families gather, the Surgeon General encourages
them to talk about, and to write down, the health problems that seem to run in
their family. Tracing the illnesses suffered by your parents, grandparents, and
other blood relatives can help predict the disorders for which you may be at
risk and spur action to keep you and your family healthy. Because
family health history is such a powerful screening tool, the Surgeon General
has created a new computerized tool to help make it fun and easy for anyone to
create a sophisticated portrait of his or her family's health. This new tool,
called "My Family
Health Portrait," can be downloaded for free and installed on your own
computer. The tool will help you organize your family tree and help you
identify common diseases that may run in your family. (You can download a
printable copy and use good old-fashioned paper and pencil, too!) Web
sites and family histories can provide information-but only you can take
a healthy idea for change and make it happen. Thursday is the Great American
Smokeout and quitting smoking is the best change you or people you know can
make for better health. Don't smoke yourself? Then pass this along to
help a friend quit. HHS
Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced this week a new national quitline number
(1-800-QUITNOW) that puts users in touch with programs that can help them give
up tobacco. In addition, a new HHS Web site (http://www.smokefree.gov/)
offers online advice and downloadable information to make quitting easier. You
can also visit the Great
American Smokeout page sponsored by the American Cancer Society to see
personal stories of people who knew it was time for a change and how they did
it. You'll find a guide
to quitting and a quiz
to help you match your smoking habits to your best bet for success in
stopping. We
all know, though, that quitting smoking is only one of the things that all of
us should do to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Healthy eating and regular
physical activity are also important. The American Cancer Society knows both
can also help
prevent cancer. ACS is featuring new
holiday recipes packed with 5-a-day nutrition, including a pumpkin
mousse with just 2 grams of fat per serving. The President's Council on Physical Fitness and
Sports (we all remember them from school, of course) offers The President's Challenge
Web site to help you develop a plan for regular activity. So
on Thanksgiving Day, while you're sitting around the table enjoying your
lowfat pumpkin mousse, you might engage Aunt Jo or Uncle Bob in a conversation
about Grandpa's health and then sign all your relatives up to a group
physical activity challenge so you can help each other stay active even
after the holiday is over. This
Thanksgiving, we encourage you to try out our new site, to stop smoking if you
do, to share your new recipes and your family history, and to make time to be
active with family and friends. As always, thanks for your interest in and
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