January 2015
Be a health champion in the New Year
The new year is a great time to brush up on healthy eating
and physical activity habits. You can get your family and your community
involved too by becoming a health champion—someone who builds healthy habits and serves as
a role model for others. The Weight-control Information Network (WIN) has
resources to help you get started. Resolve to improve your health, encourage
others, AND have fun by forming a walking group, hosting healthy potlucks, or getting
involved in community activities. Find these tips and more on WIN’s Health Champion
webpage.
Here are more resources to support your efforts to be a
health champion.
- The National
Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) offers resources
and tools that you can use in your school, workplace, house
of worship, and other venues to help people prevent and manage diabetes. Health
care providers also can use the tools to help meet the needs of people with
diabetes or those who may develop the disease.
- The Healthy
Communities Study of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute offers tips
to keep your family eating healthy and staying physically active. It also
presents ideas for using resources in your area and provides links to other useful
websites that can help your family stay healthy.
- WIN’s Sisters Together: Move More, Eat Better
is a national program designed to encourage black women to maintain a healthy
weight by becoming more physically active and eating healthier foods. Get the
free program guide and download flyers to help you start a Sisters Together health awareness effort in your area.
Share these resources with your family, friends, and community,
and make a difference in the New Year.
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Check out a Sisters Together
health champion in action
The Center of Wellness for Urban Women (CWUW), an
all-volunteer group in Indianapolis, has partnered with WIN since 2011 to build
their Sisters
Together program.
CWUW helps women
improve their own and their families’ health through walking groups and other
programs. This year, CWUW led "Yoga at the Garden," a new outdoor
event at its community garden. This program introduced women to the benefits of
yoga, such as stress relief. It also gave them something new to add to
their workout routines.
Looking forward, CWUW has received a mini-grant from the
American Heart Association to hold eight sessions at a community
center. The sessions will include fitness activities and nutrition
workshops. CWUW will team with the Marion County Public Health Department
and Indy Parks to bring the program to 20 local women.
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Watch
for the next issue of the WIN Notes
Update for…
…ways
to celebrate American Heart Month in February.
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