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By John Perry

Will there be a new you in 2006?

• Thinking about losing weight?
• Ready to start a fitness program?
• Motivated to eat a healthier, more nutritious diet?
• How about some cost-saving coupons you can download from your computer?

You can get all these and more by visiting www.bcbstx.com. Take a minute to register in Blue Access for Members and receive a world of useful health and medical information, including access to the Mayo Clinic.

Join the Mayo Clinic’s online My Healthy Weight Program. Find out how much you need to lose by calculating your body mass index. Then join the weight-loss program. It could be the first step you take to safe, permanent weight loss.

Resolved to fit fitness into your life? Then get started with the Mayo’s Fitness for Every Body program. You’ll get your new year’s exercise program off to a running – or walking – start and learn the fitness basics with a program tailored to your needs.

At the Mayo’s Food & Nutrition Center, you’ll get cyber mentoring for a diet you can maintain with the foods you enjoy. And without starving.

Helpful access hints
  • Having trouble remembering your Blue Access for Members login and password? Write them on a post-it note and stick it on the back of your HMO Blue Texas card.
  • Don't remember how to log-in? Read our first introduction to Blue Access in the Summer 05 issue where we guide you through the process

 

      
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Here’s a money-saving opportunity: discounted coupons for 13 over-the-counter medications available through Prime Therapeutics.

Go to www.bcbstx.com, log into Blue Access for Members and click on My Coverage, then on Rx Drugs, which takes you to MyRxHealth.com. Click on Over-the-Counter Drug Coupons and print two coupons for each OTC medicine.

You can get discount coupons for:

• Advil, Children’s Advil and Tylenol.
• Caltrate, Centrum, Centrum Performance and Fibercon vitamins.
• Advil Allergy and Sinus, Dimetapp Cold, Alavert Allergy, and Robitussin.
• Pepcid and Zantac heartburn relievers.