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P age 9
Free class may help you learn how to be healthy throughout life
“Get Healthy for Life, Ameri
ca,” a free, no-registration-re
quired class, will be presented
by Dr. Leonard Mees, M.D., on
Saturday, January 19, from
9:00 a.m. to noon, at Tuality
Health Education Center, 334
SE Eighth Avenue in Hillsboro.
Dr. Mees, a physician with
20 years of experience, be
lieves he has a better contribu
tion for society than handing
out pills for ailments. In teach
ing Americans how to achieve
better health, Dr. Mees ex
plains how individuals can tap
the connection among body,
mind and spirit to achieve life
long health through positive,
preventive health education.
The class begins at 9:00
a.m. with “Americans, a People
of Health Risks.” One million
on the wall” becomes more vis
ible. Without an understanding
of successful behavior modifi
cation techniques, most people
find that changing personal be
havior is often difficult or impos
sible. Learn how to be more
sensitive to your own personal
wake-up calls, and how to re
spond successfully to the
alarm, toward a healthier and
Americans die each year from
heart attacks. Three-quarters of
a million succumb to cancer.
About 125,000 fall to stroke.
The rate of diabetes grows ever
larger as our population grows
fatter, not fitter. The Center for
Disease Control and Preven
tion confirms that 80 percent of
all illness and death in America
results
from
unhealthy
lifestyles, which also contribute
to the continuing double-digit
escalation of health care costs.
Who really pays for these
trends and who is at risk?
At 10:15 a.m., the class con
tinues with “How to Heed the
Wake-up Call.” There is alarm
ing information about the in
creasing health risks of Ameri
cans, yet few people make
changes as this “handwriting
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sumers prefer to hire a profes
sional carpet-cleaning service
to do the job for them. Each
year, the Council of Better
Business Bureaus (BBB) fields
more than 50,000 inquiries on
carpet and upholstery cleaning
services. Additionally, our local
BBB handled 1,857 reliability
report requests on the carpet
cleaning
industry
and
processed 58 complaints since
July of last year. At the present
time the BBB serving Oregon
and Western Washington has
identified 19 carpet cleaners
with unsatisfactory ratings as a
result of the company’s failure
to respond to consumer com-
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• If your carpet is new, read
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must be professionally cleaned
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• Plan ahead. Ask your
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home, they quickly belittle the
type of cleaning they were sent
to do. They claim it is inferior
and suggest that a different
type of cleaning will do a better
job, which may end up costing
you much more. To avoid bait
ads, call around to several
cleaning firms and compare
prices.
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moving of furniture or the use
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how to start a life-saving voy
age of empowerment, discov
ery and education that will help
lead to positive changes and
put you in control of your health.
Dr. Mees will also present a
six-session follow-up course,
“Healthy Lifestyle Habits,” be
ginning on Wednesday, Janu
ary 30.
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The final section of the class
is “Save Money while Saving
Your Life." A few lifestyle disci
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produce wondrous health, but
when practiced poorly, actually
cause most illness. A 30 per
cent improvement in lifestyle
choices and behavior in the U.
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