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Show How Well Are You Immunized? Typhoid, pneumonia, and polio were the killers in past generations. Since the advent of widely available immunization immuniza-tion and antibiotics, however, these diseases have been drastically dras-tically reduced. TODAY MORE people die of heart disease, cancer, stroke, and other lifestyle related re-lated ailments linked to the way we live-our exercise, nutrition, nut-rition, alcohol consumption, safety habits, and how we handle everyday stress. These killers of today are unimmunizable with a vaccine, vac-cine, but are "immunizable" by changing or maintaining certain lifestyles. THE DAVIS Health Department Depart-ment provides an excellent Health Appraisal Program for industries, schools, and other interested groups at the nominal nomin-al cost of two dollars per person. The program is designed to alert participants to potential dangers caused by risk factors in their lifestyles, motivate them to reduce these risk factors, fac-tors, and provide them with improvement information and referral to a physician when necessary. THE APPRAISAL will include in-clude recording height, weight, blood pressure, and an optional cholesterol reading. Participants will fill out questionnaires ques-tionnaires pertaining to their lifestyles and life satisfaction. A follow-up session will be held to review appraisal results and educate participants as to how to improve their lifestyles. |