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CHPS provides numerous services to base personnel

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  • By Joyce Atlee
  • Family Advocacy Program
TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. --  This month, the second in the series on services available for Tinker civilian employees focuses on what Civilian Health Promotion Services offers.

CHPS Tinker can provide more than 40 different classes for base personnel (active duty are welcome too) on a wide range of topics.

For nutrition information you may want to try any or all of these CHPS classes:
· Basic Food Groups
· Cooking with Herbs and Spices
· Fad Diets
· Food Safety
· Healthy Eating at Work
· Healthy Eating During Holidays
· Healthy Eating in a Busy World
· Healthy Eating on a Budget
· Healthy Eating on Vacation
· Healthy Eating with Fast Foods
· Meal Planning with Seasonal Foods
· Mindful Eating
· Nutrition Labels
· Recipe Modification
· Serving Sizes
· Supermarket Shopping
For exercise related information you may want to focus on one or more of these classes:
· Aging and Exercise
· Benefits of Exercise
· Lose Your Excuse
· Walk Your Way to Better Health

If you would like to learn more about specific health topics, you may want to attend or set up one of the following classes:

· Allergies
· Arthritis
· Asthma
· Back Case
· Cholesterol Education
· CHPS Program Promotion
· Colorectal Cancer Education
· Diabetes
· Healthy Lifestyle Changes
· Heat Exhaustion
· High Blood Pressure
· Headaches
· Men's Health
· Women's Health
· Menopause
· Resolution Solution (goal setting and maintenance)
· Self Care and Injury Prevention
· Skin Cancer
· Sleep your Way to Better Health
· Stress Management
· Stroke Prevention
· Oral Wellness
· Carpal Tunnel
· Immunization Awareness
· Understanding the Cardiac Risk Profile (CRP)
· What is Health?
· Lighten Up! (series)
· Healthy Lifestyle Choices and How Do I Change?

Classes run approximately 30 minutes and Fit for Fife time may be used.

Also, CHPS Tinker can set up a free Cardiac Risk Profile screening at your workplace for Department of Defense civilians. The CRP screening checks for total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglycerides, glucose, BMI and blood pressure. Arrangements can be made to offer a free health education class or free CRP screening for all shifts, including swing and graveyard.

For more information, to set up a class or screening at your worksite, call CHPS Tinker at 734-4645 or email CHPSTinker@psc.gov.