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Operation Live Well

The Department of Defense (DoD) wants to improve the health and wellness of the entire defense community. As part of DoD's Operation Live Well, we have assembled a set of resources which you can use to adopt or maintain a healthy lifestyle. Please join us in our journey to health and wellness.

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Integrative Wellness

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Mental Wellness

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Nutrition

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Physical Activity

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Sleep

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Tobacco-free Living

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Motivational Monday Message: All You Can Eat, Second Course - The Appetizer

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10/19/2015
Col. Thomas Hundley

Col. Thomas Hundley’s Operation Live Well message this week, part two of seven, serves up “the appetizer” as an example for eating reduced portion sizes for the duration of the All You Can Eat program.

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Motivational Monday Message: All You Can Eat, First Course

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10/12/2015
Col. Thomas Hundley

Col. Thomas Hundley’s Operation Live Well message this week, part one of seven, serves up a “palate cleanser” for ridding the body of toxins over the next seven days.

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Make your meals a veggie victory

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10/9/2015
a bounty of fruits and vegetables

There is no consensus on a “perfect diet,” but the healthiest diets have one thing in common: plenty of vegetables daily

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Motivational Monday Message: All You Can Eat

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10/5/2015
Col. Thomas Hundley

Col. Thomas Hundley’s Operation Live Well message this week looks at the upcoming holidays and all the traditional eating and overeating that can result.

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Motivational Monday Message: PMCS Your Body (Part 6), This Little Light of Mine

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9/28/2015
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Lt. Col. Thomas Hundley’s Operation Live Well message this week, part six of a series, relates the story of a single candle’s light easing fears during a childhood storm.

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Motivational Monday Message: PMCS Your Body (Part 5), High-Performance Fuel

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9/21/2015
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Lt. Col. Thomas Hundley’s Operation Live Well message this week, part five of a series, compares the grade of gasoline you put in your car to the quality of food you put in your body, and the effects of each on performance.

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Motivational Monday Message: PMCS Your Body (Part 4), The Brain Box

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9/14/2015
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Lt. Col. Thomas Hundley’s Operation Live Well message this week, part four of a series, ties the breakdown of a car and expensive repair to health and fitness.

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Motivational Monday Message: PMCS Your Body (Part 3), Move It or Lose It!

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9/7/2015
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Lt. Col. Thomas Hundley’s Operation Live Well message this week, part three of a series, looks back at what happened to his car kept in storage during a one-year deployment, and applies it to what can happen to any of us if we are inactive too long.

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Motivational Monday Message: PMCS Your Body (Part 2)

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8/31/2015
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Lt. Col. Thomas Hundley’s Operation Live Well message this week, part two of a series, applies the concept of Preventive Maintenance Checks and Services or PMCS to your personal health by urging you to take yourself down for maintenance and REST.

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Motivational Monday Message: PMCS Your Body (Part 1)

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8/24/2015
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Lt. Col. Thomas Hundley’s Operation Live Well message this week, part one of a series, applies the concept of Preventive Maintenance Checks and Services or PMCS to your personal health.

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Preventive health – The best defense against illness

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8/19/2015
Karen S. Guice, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs

It's Preventive Health Month! Learn how good health habits help to protect against disease and illness.

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Motivational Monday Message: Manure

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8/17/2015
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Lt. Col. Thomas Hundley’s Operation Live Well message this week looks at ways to turn the worst life throws at you into something beautiful.

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Sailors, families, and youth face misconceptions about "E-cigs"

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8/14/2015
"E-cigs," as they are commonly called, as well as personal vaporizers (PVs) are essentially electronic nicotine delivery systems providing battery-powered doses of nicotine and other additives to the user in an aerosol.

Electronic cigarettes are having a tremendous, and potentially unsafe, impact on youth as well as current adult smokers hoping to quit, according to health and safety professionals at Naval Submarine Base New London

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Admiral talks healthy aging

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8/13/2015
Navy Rear Adm. Raquel Bono, a physician and director of the Defense Health Agency’s (DHA) National Capital Region Medical Directorate, speaks at the Healthy Aging Summit in Washington, D.C., July 27, 2015. (Photo by Sharon Renee Taylor, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Public Affairs)

Navy Rear Adm. Raquel Bono, a physician and director of the Defense Health Agency’s (DHA) National Capital Region Medical Directorate, told attendees of the Healthy Aging Summit that what we do now affects how we will live later.

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Motivational Monday Message: “The Meat or the Bone”

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8/10/2015
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Lt. Col. Thomas Hundley’s Operation Live Well message this week looks at the vital importance of keeping a focus on positive people as you go about your life.

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