New and Updated Topics

New Actionsets

Actionsets are designed to help people take an active role in managing a health condition. Managing these health conditions means following a set of actions to better control the condition's effect on the person and to prevent long-term problems.

• Healthy eating: Changing your eating habits: This new Actionset discusses how to change daily lifestyle habits to eat healthier.
• Healthy eating: Cutting unhealthy fats from your diet: This new Actionset explains the differences between healthy fats and unhealthy fats. It offers tips on how to eat fewer unhealthy fats and how to make healthier meal choices at home and when eating out.
• Healthy eating: Getting support when changing your eating habits: This new Actionset explains why getting support is an important part of making a change. It provides tips on how to get support and gives examples of this support.
• Healthy eating: Making healthy choices when you eat out: This new Actionset provides information on how to maintain healthy eating habits when eating out. It includes tips on how to make healthier choices at fast-food restaurants.
• Healthy eating: Overcoming barriers to change: This new Actionset describes some of the common barriers that may keep people from healthy eating, and it offers tips on how to deal with those barriers.
• Healthy eating: Recognizing your hunger signals: This new Actionset explains the role that our natural body signals play in our getting to or staying at a healthy weight. It offers tips on how to get back in touch with your body signals to avoid mindless eating.
• Healthy eating: Starting a plan for change: This new Actionset is for people who want to eat better but aren't sure how to start. It includes advice on the importance of motivation and support for successful behavior change.
• Healthy eating: Staying with your plan: This new Actionset is for people who have begun to eat healthier and want to know how to stay with it or how to get back on track after slipping up.
• Heart failure: Avoiding medicines that make symptoms worse: This new Actionset tells you which medicines you may need to avoid or take extra care with if you have heart failure. It also offers ideas on to how keep track of what you're taking and tells you what problems to watch for.
• Quitting smoking: Coping with cravings and withdrawal: Most people feel bad when they try to quit smoking. The hardest part is trying not to reach for a smoke to feel better. This new Actionset provides tips on how to deal with cravings and withdrawal symptoms from quitting smoking or spit tobacco products.
• Quitting smoking: Getting support: This new Actionset explains why getting support is an important part of quitting smoking. It provides tips on how to get support and gives examples of this support.
• Quitting smoking: Helping someone quit: This new Actionset provides information on why people smoke and why it is hard to quit. It provides tips on how to help someone and gives examples.
• Quitting smoking: Preventing slips or relapses: This new Actionset provides strategies to avoid slips as well as full-blown relapse for people who have quit smoking or using spit tobacco products.
• RLS: Getting more sleep: This new Actionset offers general tips for improving your sleep environment as well as specific tips for people with restless legs syndrome (RLS).
• Sleep problems: Dealing with jet lag: This new Actionset describes jet lag and provides tips on preventing jet lag and dealing with it.
• Stress management: Breathing exercises for relaxation: This new Actionset describes three different breathing exercises you can do to relax.
• Stress management: Doing guided imagery to relax: This new Actionset explains how to use guided imagery to relax.
• Stress management: Doing meditation: This new Actionset explains how to do mindful meditation by focusing your attention on what is happening in the present moment.
• Stress management: Doing progressive muscle relaxation: This new Actionset explains how to tense and relax your muscles in a specific order as a way to relax.
• Stress management: Relaxing your mind and body: This new Actionset has information on different ways to relax your mind and body.

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