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Ideas for Healthy Eating During Career Transition

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Healthy Eating During Career Transition
As I talk about in my book, a season of career transition can be a great time to make adjustments to your exercise routine and eating habits. This month’s guest blog is a book review by my colleague, Dave Carew. –Kurt

Can losing weight and getting healthy be fun, nutritious, and delicious? It can be when Kelly Ann Monahan is your guide! Beloved as the WSM radio personality and health correspondent for World Christian Broadcasting, Kelly Ann released her first ever cookbook for those who want to lose weight, gain energy, and achieve optimum health. It’s called Sweet Healthy Living: Delicious, Easy Recipes and is available as an e-book at Sweetie Pie Health or at Amazon.

Why is Sweet Healthy Living a different kind of cookbook? Because its scrumptious recipes—for everything from dinners to salads to smoothies to desserts—will help your body minimize inflammation, a strong contributor to everything from obesity to arthritis to diabetes to heart disease to cancer.

In fact, Kelly Ann herself is living proof of how well Sweet Healthy Living can work. She used these nutritious, easy-to-make, “to die for” recipes to lose 80 pounds, gain an all-new energy and love of life, eliminate a pile of prescription medications, and successfully manage her Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (a rare connective-tissue disease that causes terrible pain and fatigue, and which, in Kelly Ann’s case, went undiagnosed for years).

Among the mouth-watering recipes featured in Sweet Healthy Living are Veggie Pot Pie, White Bean Burritos, Healthy Pizza Plate, Simply Delicious Salad Dressing, Berry Blast Breakfast Smoothie, Iced Lite Latte, Foo Foo Frappuccino, and wondrous, healthy deserts such as Pumpkin Pie and Chocolate Chia Cakes.

To order or for more information, please visit: http://www.sweetiepiehealth.com

–Dave Carew

David M. (Dave) Carew is writer/editor of “Underground Nashville” and the author of the novels Everything Means Nothing to Me: A Novel of Underground Nashville and Voice from the Gutter, both available at Amazon.com and XLibris.com. Dave is also a freelance book editor, publicist, seminar and workshop leader, journalist, and advertising / marketing / public relations writer.

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LIFE 101 FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM: Unpacking & Understanding Car, Life, & Health Insurance

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Photo by KnG Đà Nẵng/K&G Studio

Insurance may seem like a waste to some new grads, but it definitely comes in handy when disaster strikes. In this post, I’ll focus on three types: life, car, & health.

1. Life insurance – Personally, I don’t have a life insurance policy since I don’t have a spouse or children and have registered with my local public medical center for a body donation. But those with a family will probably want to leave them some funds for funeral costs, bills, debt reduction, a child’s college fund, etc. If life insurance is not offered by your employer, you can start by checking with your parents as far as finding good agent.

2. Car insurance – Once you are no longer a dependent of or living with your parents, you must secure your own car insurance. The cost of your car insurance will depend on many factors including your gender, where you live, and what you drive. The fewer accidents you claimed on your previous insurance you’ve had will help keep your rate down. Men can usually expect to pay a higher rate.

You may be able to get somewhat of a discount if you use the same insurance company your family does or if you use the same insurance company for as many of your different insurance policies as you can. You should be able to reduce your premium by paying your policy bi-annually or annually vs. monthly. Again, check with family or friends for a recommendation, and shop around for the best rate with an idea of how much you’d like your deductible (the amount you’re responsible for before insurance kicks in) to be.

3. Health Insurance – At age 26, you must secure your own health insurance. Going without insurance is tempting fate, and your yearly tax return will eventually be impacted under the current healthcare law, effectively penalizing you for not carrying health insurance.

It’s always cheaper to take the health insurance offered by your employer than paying for your own independent policy, and www.healthcare.gov insurance is usually not available to those who’s employers offer coverage. So get into your employer’s health and dental plans as soon as you’re eligible.

Depending on the plans offered, you can choose how much coverage you have. Usually the higher your deductible, the more you’ll pay before insurance kicks in (in the way of yearly minimums that must be met), but this can lower your monthly premium (how much your employer deducts from your pay for insurance.)

80/20 is a standard coverage figure you’ll often see meaning 80% of an expense (like an ER visit or surgery) is covered by insurance and 20% by you. Some employers offer Flex Spending Accounts, so look into taking advantage of that as well if you expect frequent doctor or specialist visits and/or needs for prescriptions. A significant savings on prescription drugs is included which is very handy for drugs that have high out of pocket costs (the cost to those with no insurance.)

 

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