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M Healthy! Are U? Michigan Healthy Community is a campus-wide effort to encourage healthier living through increased activity, attention to physical safety in the workplace, and other health and wellness efforts. MHealthy aims to promote discussion and motivate commitment to well-being by embracing health as a community. It will harness the latest thinking and creative ideas from across the University to develop an ambitious plan to foster health campus wide.


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Active U may be over but you can continue to use My Tracker to log your exercise minutes.

Log into My Tracker

Click here for Active U 2008 winners!


Wellness Champions' Portal

Wellness Champions click here to access tools and resources to help you promote a healthier workplace culture within your department.


Curb Your Car Month Commuter Challenge

Burn calories instead of gas during May’s Curb Your Car Month Commuter Challenge! Participate in the City of Ann Arbor’s Commuter Challenge, a month-long competition to see which organizations can log the most sustainable commutes. Learn more.


MCardFitness Center Discounts

There are literally dozens of fitness centers in and around U-M where you can break a sweat and improve your health and well-being.  Use your MCard to join U-M facilities like U-M Rec Sports, MFIT Fitness Center at the Cube, Flint Recreation Center and the Dearborn Wellness Center, or receive special discounts at participating non-university work out facilities.  Learn more


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MHealthy: Focus on Medicines

The University has launched a pilot program designed to improve health and help contain costs for employees, retirees, dependents and survivors who take nine or more medications through the U-M prescription drug plan. More…


Healthwise

For a wealth of current, reliable information on health topics that affect you and your family, consult the Healthwise® Knowledgebase, available to University of Michigan faculty and staff directly from Michigan Healthy Community. To access, click here.


Interested in controlling stress?
Increasing your level of physical activity?
Check out MFit Exercise and Relaxation classes.

Take a Healthy Eating Challenge!

Each month, from April through June, GOOD CHOICE will offer a new online healthy eating challenge to help faculty and staff plan healthy yet satisfying meals, make better food choices and successfully manage weight. Complete a Healthy Eating Challenge and a brief survey to be entered into monthly drawings for great prizes!

Take May's Meal Planning Healthy Eating Challenge Now!

Get more information about GOOD CHOICE.

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The University's Michigan Healthy Community health and wellness initiative has received a legislative tribute in Lansing. U-M was one of 10 Michigan employers honored by state lawmakers for making significant commitments to promoting employee wellness through programs and policies that focus on prevention and disease management through the MHealthy program.

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The MHealthy: Focus on Diabetes Program received a Driving Value in Health Care Award sponsored by a coalition of health care leadership organizations including the National Business Coalition on Health, The Leapfrog Group and Bridges to Excellence.

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