WIN Notes Update: January

WIN Notes Update*

January 2015


Be a health champion in the New Year


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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.

 



Check out a Sisters Together health champion in action


woman practicing yoga

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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NDEP publishes new Guiding Principles for diabetes care


The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) worked with a varied group of health experts to establish 10 Guiding Principles for the Care of People With or at Risk for Diabetes. The goal of this resource is to help health care providers help their patients with diabetes. The Guiding Principles identify and combine medical practices common to existing clinical guidelines and endorsed by many health organizations and federal agencies. The principles address diagnosis, treatment, and self-management support for people with diabetes.