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With issues like heart disease, cancer, and high blood pressure on the rise in recent years, being health-conscious is more important now than ever. For people over 50, these risk factors become greater and maintaining a healthy lifestyle becomes a key component to managing risk. What does being healthy really mean? It isn’t an easy question to answer because there are many approaches to a healthy lifestyle, but diet and exercise are always at the forefront. As you age, however, your needs in these areas evolve, and so should your approach.
Helpguide.org has a wonderful guide to nutrition and diet tips for the individual over 50 that lays out what you should be paying attention to and what benefits you can expect to gain. Click here to check out the full article and then be sure to check back on the blog tomorrow for a fun and healthy fall recipe!
We’re right in the middle of the open enrollment period for Medicare, which runs until December 7th of this year. What does this mean for you? If you are unhappy with your current plan or would just like to reevaluate and get to know your options, now is your chance, and we would love to help you! Here at My Medicare Planner we take the confusion and difficulty out of Medicare at no cost to you, so call us today at 804-788-1965 to schedule an appointment.
Today is election day, and before you head out to the polls you may want to make sure you understand just what you’re voting for this morning. In this years midterm elections in Virginia, voters are deciding the races for the United States Senate as well as those for the 11 Congressional districts in the state.
The Richmond Times Dispatch has a guide to election day posted on their website today (which can be seen here), but here is a quick rundown of the ‘who’s-who’ on the ballot for Virginians today.
According to a posting in todays AARP health newsletter, April 28th is national ‘Drug Take Back Day’ To read the article and find out how to safely dispose of unused and expired medications click the link below!
From the Daily Capital, an investment and fiance online resource comes this story today concerning Social Security:
“In a world where very few private-sector workers are going to have a company-provided pension to fall back on in retirement, maxing out your Social Security benefit is more crucial than ever.”
read the full article at :http://dailycapital.com/investing/it-really-pays-to-wait-how-to-max-out-on-social-security/
“Specifically, if it decides that Congress exceeded its constitutional authority in enacting the part of the law that requires most Americans to either have health insurance starting in 2014 or pay a penalty, does that invalidate the rest of the law? And if not, how much, if any, of the rest of the law should it strike down?…”
read the full article at: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/03/27/149497762/court-looks-at-whether-mandate-can-separate-from-rest-of-health-law
Like many other Medicare Beneficiaries, you may be wondering how proposed legislation appreciated with The Affordable Care Act will effect you and your Medicare coverage. We can tell you! Use our new Questions and Comments page (located in the menu at the top of our blog) to shoot us a message. Or, give us a call at 804-788-1965 and as always find valuable information on our website at www.mymedicareplanner.com.