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Your vote counts! Time to vote for the Best of the Pacific 2025

A new year is upon us, and it’s time once again to turn your attention to the yearly tradition unlike any other – Best of the Pacific voting season!

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Unlock your health through the MHS Nurse Advice Line

Should you go to an urgent care clinic or the emergency room, or wait until your doctor’s office is open? Luckily, TRICARE has a service called the Military Health System Nurse Advice Line that can help when you need healthcare guidance.

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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: Finding inner peace

“The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.” -Sigmund Freud

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Kick start new year fitness goals with the Yokota Exchange’s BE FIT gear, resources

Yokota shoppers can jump straight into their new year health and fitness goals with BE FIT 360 gear, resources, services and more.

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Cold Weather Injuries peak in January, February

CWI risk can be reduced if both unit leaders and service members are aware of the conditions and symptoms and how to prevent them.

Photo Of Armed Forces Wellness Center employees demonstrate a metabolic assessment at Camp Zama, Japan. Participants in the “Biggest Loser” competition will be able to use the test to identify their unique target caloric zone as they seek to achieve and maintain a healthy weight and body composition.

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Camp Zama’s annual weight loss contest to encourage healthy living

Community members looking to keep their New Year’s fitness resolutions or just strive for better overall health can sign up starting Friday for Camp Zama’s annual weight loss contest.

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January is National Radon Action Month: Learn to manage risk

It’s January 2025, and a new year has begun. It’s a time of new beginnings and new resolutions. How about resolving to test your home for radon?

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VIDEO: ADAPT Drinking Tips

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Kailah Brown, 35th Medical Group Mental Health Flight ADAPT technician, shares safe drinking tips at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Jan. 7, 2025.

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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: A new beginning

Here we are. Another year. Another chance at self-renewal. Now is the time to mend relationships and friendships.

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Kick start new year fitness goals with the Camp Zama Exchange’s BE FIT gear, resources 

Camp Zama shoppers can jump straight into their new year health and fitness goals with BE FIT 360 gear, resources, services and more.

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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: Self-acceptance and realization

Growing up in New York City, I would wander through Wall Street, staring at the American flags displaying the symbols of freedom, democracy, amidst the architectural wonders of power, success, and wealth. I would ask myself, “Where is my place in this world?”

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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: Fatherhood is a journey of endless commitment

Being a father is a lifetime commitment with continual challenges. Fatherhood can be stressful while handling a career and giving time to your child.

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Military health expert explains how strength is relative to body weight

The military monitors its service members’ fitness levels to ensure combat physical readiness and minimize loss of personnel to injury.

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Innovate to invigorate: Don’t miss out on the advantages of walking

Without a doubt, the best exercise for breathing and many other functions is the one invented by nature – walking.

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