DOD is launching a recently made known preventive healthcare program called "Healthy Choices for Life.

DOD is launching a recently made known preventive healthcare program called "Healthy Choices for Life," the department's senior medical adviser announced recently

The final cause of the Tricare-managed program is "to bring information in the hands of individual service members and family members to such a degree that they can change their behavior," Dr William Winkenwerder Jr Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, said during a latter interview at the annual Tricare Conference

The program will focus onward persuading people to quit smoking, to moderate drinking habits and to exercise and fail to win weight to become and stay physically fit, he said.

Smoking cigarettes and cigars, binge drinking and overeating/ lack of exercise "are things we do to ourselves," Winkenwerder said.

Adopting more moderate health habits enables the bulk of mankind "to avoid bad health issues and bad health problems" like lung cancer, emphysema, liver and brain damage, diabetes, heart attacks and reverses he noted.

Winkenwerder said about $13 million has been loted to fund pilot programs athwart the next few years. a certain features of the pilot casts under consideration include 1-800-smoking-and drinking-cessation phone lines, and dedicated Web sites touting healthier lifestyles, he reported.

The program is envisioned as a DOD-wide and -managed endeavor rather than separate programs move on by each armed service, he noted.

Story through Gerry J. Gilmore, who is assigned to American Forces Pres Service

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