New year, new you
MIT Medical can help you keep those 2009 resolutions
As you’ve probably learned from past experience, it’s relatively easy to make New Year’s resolutions but a lot harder to keep them. Maybe that’s why most of us end up making—and breaking—the same resolutions year after year.
But this year can be different, and MIT Medical can help.
Did you resolve to…
Get in shape? Check out MIT Medical’s annual fitness challenge, getfit@mit! For the last four years, this team-based challenge has been helping members of the MIT community shake off their winter doldrums and get moving. Best of all, it turns out that exercise is habit forming; each year, about three-quarters of getfit@mit participants tell us they’ve become more active as a result of the 12-week challenge, and most keep it up for at least six months after the program ends.
Registration for this year’s challenge ends on Friday, January 23, and the program begins on Monday, January 26. Get a team together, and sign up today!
Stop smoking? MIT Medical offers comprehensive, free stop-smoking services to every member of the MIT community. You can make an appointment to speak with an MIT Medical health care provider to review your tobacco use and learn more about medications that may improve the odds that you’ll stop smoking for good. You can also talk with a tobacco treatment specialist in MIT Medical’s Center for Health Promotion & Wellness, who can help you develop a quit plan, come up with strategies for coping with cravings, and learn about other wellness resources to improve your overall health.
“You don’t have to be a member of the MIT Health Plan to take advantage of our stop-smoking services,” emphasizes MIT Medical health educator Lauren Mayhew. “Help is available free to any member of the Institute community.” For more information about MIT Medical’s stop-smoking services, call 617-258-6965, or send an email to helpmequit@med.mit.edu.
Lose weight or start eating better? MIT Medical’s Center for Health Promotion & Wellness offers a number of resources to help members of the MIT community learn more about nutrition, mindful eating, and healthy weight loss. You can make a free appointment to speak with a health educator in person or over the phone, or you can take advantage of all the online information the Center makes available on the subject—everything from guides to eating healthier on campus to information on portion size.
Here’s to a healthy 2009!
Jan. 7, 2009
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